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Prodigiously built (he was six feet four), prodigiously dressed (in black suit, broad black hat and flowing black Windsor tie), a prodigious writer, talker, fighter and drinker, Pitchfork Smith worshipped at the shrine of one man and one man only: William Cowper Brann (the Iconoclast). Once, on Brann's birthday, his disciple got drunk, visited his grave at Waco, and sat there all night communing with the soul of his friend, for every drink he took himself pouring an equal amount of whiskey...
...Finley. who took over the editorship in April 1937 after 16 years as associate editor, is an inveterate worker, talker, walker (he once walked 70 miles in one day, till this year annually circumambulated Manhattan), degree-taker (he has 31 honorary degrees, 21 LL.D.s). Of late he has been ill and Charles Merz has been filling in. Last week, with the Merz promotion. Dr. Finley was made editor emeritus...
...town; a law partner who brought his mean children to the office where they tore up the papers and urinated or the floor uncorrected; a practical politician who set out coldly to destroy Douglas when he saw Douglas as his rival for leadership of the West; a great talker who would start to work but waste his time telling stories and then walk home silently to a scolding wife. But he was also a local politician for whom great things had always been predicted, who was honest, picturesque, wise, extraordinary in his generosity and in his devotion to his tasks...
Included in the questionnaire issued by Virginia Vonne, Secretary, are such queries as, "Do you like a girl tall, short, of medium?"; "Do you prefer a good dancer, good talker, good listener, hearty eater?"; "Do you favor heavy or light make...
...Kaufman and Miss Ferber have made an amazing number of young women stand out as real persons. The secret is probably that heavy lines and strong colors are used: there is the witty cynic, the blase adventures, the man-hater, the sweet young thing from the South, the inescapable talker, the pair of mediocre pals, the dancer of irrepressible gaiety and the lonesome victim of melancholia. The summary is only partial. If Miss Bennett is not sufficient inducement, it's worth your while to go see this bevy of assorted women in search of artistic careers...