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...last week arrived His Grace the Right Honorable and Most Reverend Doctor William Temple, 54, Lord Archbishop of York. This Primate of England is ecclesiastically outranked only by the Defender of the Faith, King George V, and the Primate of All England, the Archbishop of Canterbury. On shipboard the stout, brisk Archbishop received newshawks, spoke newsworthily when one of them suggested that "the church has not shown strength in recent years in maintaining world peace." Replied Dr. Temple: ''I'm afraid I don't know that the church has ever done much to keep the world...
...editors have secured an imposing list of talent to enrich their little brain child. There are bawdy cartoons by the leading New Yorker and Esquire artists, articles by Philip Wylie, Rex Stout, and poems by William Rose Benet, Leonard Bacon and Ogden Nash; and one act plays by Hervey Allen and Marc Connelly. The subject matter runs the gamut of the privy and bedroom school of expression...
...growth rings on trees, in the catch of codfish and mackerel, in deposits of clay laid down by Pleistocene glaciers. On the basis of his cycle Dr. Abbot in 1933 made temperature and precipitation predictions for 30 U. S. cities for 1934, 1935, 1936, stowed them away in a stout safe. With the danger of misleading anyone on the 1934 forecasts well past, Cyclist Abbot revealed how they turned out: excellent, 27%; good 42%; right about half the time, 17%; poor...
...Club can find technical fault with Adventure's fiction. That they might find fault with its literary content is no worry of onetime Editor Hoffman, who conducts a correspondence course in writing from his home in Carmel, N. Y. Last week to the anniversary issue he contributed a stout defense of his oldtime magazine against literary critics. His theme...
...seems as incapable of timidity as it is of humor. He has beetling mobile brows and eyes whose whites can gleam with tragic fury in a sepia-colored face, as they did last week in Manhattan when Crosby Gaige opened his production of Othello, with Mr. Merivale playing the stout-hearted Moor whom jealousy made...