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Famed John Albert Macy of Manhattan and Van Wyck Brooks of Westport, Conn., qualify eminently as leading literary critics of the U. S.; were omitted from the list published in connection with the death of Critic Stuart Pratt Sherman (TIME, Aug. 30, BOOKS) because TIME had prime reference to magazine and newspaper practitioners. Onetime associate editor of Youth's Companion (1901-09), onetime literary editor of the Boston Herald (1913-14), and of the Nation (1922-23), Critic Macy now devotes most of his efforts to writing books. Likewise Critic Brooks, since his brief editorial career...
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...that a nautical, critical immigrant who has written so noteworthy a book as Casuals of the Sea and such commendable books as Captain Macedoinc's Daughter, Aliens and Command, and who now purposes to become a U. S. citizen, anchored for further writing (a sequel to Race) at Westport, Conn., should remind his new countrymen of the texture of his thought. Grimly opposed to "sea stuff," particularly in the magazines of a landlubber nation, he is himself by no means all sailor. His concern is the large "ineluctable problem of human folly," his attitude that of a "benevolent marbleheart...
...qualified as Engineer and ever since has cruised about. Most of his writing was done in the Chief Engineer's room of his various ships and was sandwiched in between long hours with engine pumps, port boilers, bilge rams. Now, he has left the sea and lives in Westport, Conn. Among his books: Casuals of the Sea, Aliens, Command, An Ocean Tramp...
...York City Stuyvesant H. S. 175 19 5.11 6 N. T. Buddine '26 Brooklyn Erasmus Hall 165 17 5.10 7 L. Tiihone '25 Brooklyn M. T. H. S. 164 22 5.11 S G. Washeck '24 New York City Stuyvesant H. S. 165 21 5.11 C W. H. Marshall '24 Westport, N. Y. Stuyvesant H. S. 111 19 5.06 Average weight of eight, 168 pounds...