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Editor Robert van Gelder in his book Writers and Writing (TIME, July 22) quotes Novelist [Sinclair] Lewis thusly...
...Cornelius Vanderbilt and Newport neighbors scored a smashing victory over a junkman. For some 30 years he had been heaping his own yard with indelicate odds & ends, and he lived just a tin-can's throw from the very best people. So Mrs. Peyton J. Van Rensselaer got up a petition; Mrs. Vanderbilt and some of the other best people signed it. The junkman's yard was a fire hazard, said they. That did it. The junkman tidied up. Now it was just like the good days of 1929. That was the other time he tidied...
Bordley thinks the real genius was not even Rubens' "best pupil" Anthony Van Dyck, but a fellow who was supposed to be especially adept at painting the animals in Rubens' hunting scenes. His name: Frans Snyders...
...announcement followed a series of meetings at Columbia University this summer, at which the University was represented by George B. Kistiakowsky, Abbot and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry; John K. Van Vleck, professor of Mathematical Physics, and Kenneth T. Bainbridge, associate professor of Physics...
Easy to Wed. Van Johnson, egged on by Lucille Ball, Esther Williams and Keenan Wynn, sings, dances and takes pratfalls (TIME, July...