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...fellow craftsmen who know him consider him the most skilled practitioner of a most difficult kind of book reviewing. Critic Van Wyck Brooks, when he edited the Freeman, said that Lisle Bell had invented a new form, ranked him with highbrow Scottish Critic Edwin Muir. Poet Marianne Moore, who edited the Dial's brief booknotes for the ten years Bell contributed, called one cluster of his reviews the best thing she had seen. The reason why Reviewer Bell has never received recognition for his services to U.S. letters: his 17,000 reviews have been written as a sideline, while...
...also did the booknotes for the Nation. When Irita Van Doren became editor of the Herald Tribune's book section (1926), she got Bell to do its brief reviews. He has been doing them ever since. In one summer-fiction number of the supplement he guided readers to 65 examples of hammock reading, wrote nine reviews and a long article summarizing the year's light fiction-almost half the supplement...
...Warner Bros, in Britain. With Chief Sound Engineer Ernest Royle, "Doc" was responsible for last week's scoop broadcast of the sound of a flying bomb, passing very close overhead and crashing with a terrific explosion. Salomon and Royle went buzz-bomb hunting with a sound recording van for three nights before they got their perfect recording. So realistic was their sound track that, when it was played at Warner's studio and later at the Ministry of Information, building employes ran pell-mell for shelter...
...Hitler Gang (Robert Watson, Victor Varconi, Luis Van Rooten, Martin Kosleck; TIME...
Authorizing two minor sports credits for golf, Clarence B. Van Wyck, Secretary to the Department of Physical Education, has officially launched Harvard's newest team. Negotiations have been completed with the Oakley Country Club for a special forty dollar membership to take effect immediately and to run through Labor...