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...LITERARY LIFE AND THE HELL WITH IT- Whit Burnett-Harper...
...Americans who is an editor, a humorist and a man with a beard is Whit Burnett, co-editor (with his wife, Martha Foley) of Story Magazine. Last week Editor Burnett published his catch-all memoirs, a 276-page volume called The Literary Life and the Hell with It, gleefully illustrated by Ludwig Bemelmans...
Automobile manufacturers, among the chief victims of Depression II, last week were so agog over good omens for the Auto Show (see p. 71) that sour earnings fazed them not a whit...
...Start of the Road is a novelized version of Whitman's stay in New Orleans in 1848. John Erskine pictures Whit man falling in love with an intelligent, Paris-educated quadroon, who bears his son. Inconsequential and not very convincing, the book gives an easy, informal portrait of Whitman, sketches of other historic figures, but is enriched with fine savory quotations from Whitman's poems which bring it to life when its story grows labored...
...behind Donahue in the hurdles. Westmore Willcox, 3rd, whose father holds the meet record in that event, will run the quarter. David Ives in the broad jump and pole vault, Rosenberger in the latter event if his ankle heals, Russell and Weed in the high jump. Whit Dodge in the half, and Baker in the mile all may garner vital seconds and thirds...