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...nightclub and scolded: "You are a rude, scurrilous man." "Yes, I am," he replied, "but I'd rather make a living that way than by selling bonds." For years he needled Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt by calling her Mrs. Brigadier General Vanderbilt. Introduced to her unexpectedly one day by Vincent Astor, Paul stammered: "I'm not really the disreputable person you think I am, Mrs. Vanderbilt." Said Mrs. Vanderbilt gently: "From what you have been writing about me, I was under the impression that you thought I was the disreputable person...
Indicted last April on charges of criminal libel against President Roosevelt, Edward H. James '96, leader of the fascistic "Yankee-American Action" which held weekly meetings in PBH two years ago, was adjudged sane in a report submitted Friday by two Boston psychiatrists to Judge Vincent Brogna of the Middlesex superior criminal court...
...John Osborne Sargent Prize of $200, for the best metrical translation of a lyric poem of Horace, was awarded to Vincent A. P. Cronin '45, of Boston, Mass...
...wasn't entirely to blame) not a single new show deserved to be a hit. Comedies, farces, fantasies—the theater of entertainment and escape—showed as little merit as the theater of ideas. Big names—John Steinbeck, Maxwell Anderson, George Kaufman, Clifford Odets, Ben Hecht, Marc Connelly, Paul Vincent Carroll, Emlyn Williams—revealed all the ineptitude of nonentities. During the entire season, not one U.S. playwright produced a good original full-length play of any kind. No playwright of whatever nationality came out with a good drama. There was too much luckless trying to read the public...
...solemnly announced that—Chicago students like the streamlined deminudes of U.S. Magazine Artist George Petty. After Esquire's Petty, students coolly chose (in order of preference): Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, George Innes, Claude Monet, Doris Lee, Winslow Homer' Jules Breton, Caravaggio, Renoir, Manet,' John Singer Sargent, Vincent van Gogh. Art Institute Director Daniel Catton Rich blanched not a whit. Said he: "It was perfectly natural. The students like pretty girls and they like slick technique. I look at Petty myself whenever I get the chance...