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When young Danny Handby refuses with tears to take another bundle of household goods to the pawnbroker, to piece out his father's wages from the mines, his mother sorrowfully tells him what must be his life's philosophy: "It's not what tha wants, lad, it's what tha's got to do." At 14 he wants to earn some money for his family, but he has got to become a coal miner to do that. Down into the pithead goes Danny among the sooty veterans who, when they stop to think, curse...
Engaged. August Belmont, Harvard senior, son of tha late August Belmont Jr.; and Elizabeth Lee Saltonstall, Boston socialite, daughter of John L. Saltonstall, onetime (1911-12) member of the Massachusetts Legislature...
...view of the whole country. At the opposite pole from Author Thornton Niven Wilder (TIME, Feb. 24) who writes neat, classical tales of other lands. Author Dos Passos unwinds a rapid, impressionistic, five-reel cinema of his own U. S., from 1900 to the War. Of more ambitious scope tha Cineman David Wark Griffith's The Birth of a Nation but of the same breadth of conception. Author Dos Passos' book sets a new mark for U. S. novelists to shoot...
...national elephantiasis . . . designated . . . jumboism? . . . It may be maintained that for the special student it is actually an advantage to make . . . comparisons . . . under one roof. . . . There is really very little in the plea. The specialist is . . . the last man to make comparisons. . . . You are doing him no favor to bring tha art of the world into unnatural . . . juxtaposition . . . you are doing the simple art-lover a great disservice...
...stock market today is a fair game. Everybody has a chance. That is, everybody who isn't a fool. But a man can't expect to make money on a stock if he buys without any faintest notion-of what tha stock is?as so many fools...