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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wide following. Don't take your preconceptions about the novel form with you into this novel. . . There's always John Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath," whether you think it's the Great American novel of real worth to make an impression on the reading public since "G--W--T--W--". . . Vardis Fisher tells the story of the Mormen trek in "Children of god." A capable book and to be recommended to both Fisher fans and enemies. . . Safest fiction of the year to give is C.S. Forester's "Captain Horatio Hornblower." Guaranteed to please all levels of comprehension, although in different...
...manner of "Green Light" and "White Banners." Others will presently be forthcoming, it is to be presumed . . . "Escape," by Ethel Vance, is a sensitive and moving story of he Nazi regime and of its victims . . . "Christmas Holiday" is a worthy addition to the list of books which have made W. Somerset Maugham one of the most distinguished modern novelists in English . . . Augusta Tucker's "Miss Susie Slagle's" recounts the story of a student's boarding house in Baltimore . . . Stephen Vincent Benet's "Tales Before Midnight" again attest to his ability as a writer of the fantastic and disturbing short...
...University yesterday offered for another year the Lucius W. Nieman Fellowships for newspaper men, under which twenty-one editors and reporters have studied their chosen fields at the university in the two years since the plan started...
...gift to Harvard by Mrs. Agnes Wahl Nieman, widow of Lucius W. Nieman, founder of "The Milwaukee Journal," finances the fellowships, designed "to promote and elevate the standards of journalism in the United States and educate persons specially qualified for journalism...
...positions, those of assistant editors, will be filled by Rufus W. Mathewson, Jr. '41 and G. Robert Stange...