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...Waugh on Hemingway [Waugh criticized the critics of Hemingway's new novel, Across the River and into the Trees) in TIME...
...Across the River and into the Trees (deftly parodied by E. B. White in The New Yorker as Across the Street and into the Grill) had strong popular support; it stood firmly at the top of the bestseller list. There was also moral support from fellow Writer Evelyn Waugh. The critics, wrote Waugh in London's Catholic weekly, the Tablet, ". . . have been smug, condescending, derisive, some with unconcealed glee, some with an affectation of pity; all are agreed that there is a great failure to celebrate ... I believe the truth is that they have detected in him something they...
Houghton started out by hiring Architect John M. Gates and Sculptor Sidney Waugh to work together on new designs. They cleared the shelves for a fresh start by a simple method: they got lead pipes from the factory, smashed the worst of the old glassware...
Houghton, Gates and Waugh worked out new designs by letting the pure colorless crystal* "do what the material wants to do." The designs, said Gates, fell esthetically "somewhere between the curves of the Taj Mahal and the straight lines of the Empire State Building." From time to time they called on such outside artists as Raoul Dufy, Thomas Hart Benton, Salvador Dali, Jean Hugo and Moise Kisling. Steuben never tried to figure out what the taste of customers might be. Says Houghton loftily: "We made taste." By 1935, Steuben taste had made Steuben a success...