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Just in case you don't happen to have a copy of the Journal of the Association of Engineering Societies (June, 1904, Vol. 32, No. 2) lying handy, you might be interested to learn that in 1902, after sweating over a hot slide-rule for some weeks, the architect team of McKim, Mead and White rushed up from New York laden with rolls of blue paper. The Aberthaw Construction Company of Boston wasted no time: saziche sandwiches were prepared, red wine was distributed, and the cement started pouring. After a year-and-a-half of carefully directed work, the building...
...Scarlet Tree is Vol. II of Osbert's autobiography, covering the period of his seventh to 17th years (1899-1909). Like Left Hand, Right Hand! (TIME, May 15, 1944), it is a combination of acute filial impiety, antique sentence structure and genuine literary skill. If anyone else had dared publish half its secrets, the Sitwell trio would have screamed with rage, summoned their solicitors and sued with a vengeance.* As it is, The Scarlet Tree is by no means the spectacular Sitwell history that may some day be written, but it is a family album with portraits...
...North Carolina and the Navy, is 84. He still loves a good scrap and the old Democratic Party, still hates booze, wicked women and the late Admiral William S. Sims. He has been working away at his memoirs for years. Tar Heel Editor (TIME, Dec. 25, 1939) was Vol. I of the series. Vol. IV. The Wilson Era: Years of War and After, covers the period from...
Enrico Caruso, His Life and Death, Dorothy Caruso; Fighting Liberal, George W. Norris; Tolstoy and His Wife, Tikhon Polner; A. Woollcott, His Life and His World, Samuel Hopkins Adams; The Middle Span: Vol. II, Persons and Places, George Santayana; Mozart-His Charactcr. His Work, Alfred Einstein; Black Boy, Richard Wright; The Young Jefferson, Claude G. Bowers; The Unquiet Grave, Cyril Connolly; Woodrow Wilson and the Great Betrayal, Thomas A. Bailey; The Age of Jackson, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.; Saints and Strangers, George F. Willison; One Who Survived, Alexander Barmine; Lincoln, the President, J. G. Randall...
History of Jazz: The "Solid" South (Capitol Records, 10 sides). Vol. I of a new firm's ambitious four-part survey of American jazz. With the exception of Leadbelly, whose piano, guitar and vocalizing are invulnerable, the rest is mostly men of the '40s trying to play the way the jazzmen did in the '20s. Performance: fair...