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CALL HER SAVAGE-Tiffany Thayer- Kendall...
...want to read a good imitation of a serious novel, try this one. It has many earmarks of what passes for worth; a pioneer panorama, noble savages, slick Manhattanites and Chicagoans, "frankness," a (pseudo) devil-may-care style. Author Tiffany Thayer knows how to butter his bread, knows many a reader will put up with oleomargarine if it is spread thick enough...
...Significance. Call Her Savage is a good example of an unamazing third-rate book backed by amazing and first-rate ballyhoo. Author Thayer's first published book, Thirteen Men (TIME, July 14, 1930), was publicized into the best-seller class, drew (according to Publisher Kendall) 700,000 words in reviews...
...Georgian building. In the nine sky-lit gallery rooms are some 100 U. S. paintings valued at $1,500,000. Among them: three Winslow Homers, George Wesley Bellows' Anne in Purple Wrap and Dempsey-Firpo Fight (lithograph). James Abbott McNeill Whistler's Battersea Bridge, works of Abbott Thayer, Thomas Eakins, Childe Hassam, Arthur B. Davies, Julian Alden Weir, John Singer Sargent, William Merritt Chase, Frank Weston Benson, and many another modern; Early American works by Gilbert Stuart, John Trumbull, Benjamin West. There are six rooms for permanent and loan exhibitions of contemporary works. U. S. ship models, silver...
FRESHMAN: Thayer Academy 8, Harvard...