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...Tribunal by providing that party electors in each province should decide among themselves whether to support the party nominee or another. The Government, happy to be back where it was a month ago, accepted the plan, set Jan. 10 as Election Day. To the Menocalistas, who cared not a whit for the abstract justice of the Dodds Plan, it looked as if the Government was merely calling in another U. S. adviser to justify its disregard of the law. Promptly they withdrew from the election...
...serve. Any scholar who stays in the East after his college course, any scholar who has no ambition, any scholar who does not see and accept his responsibility to his state and to Harvard in receiving the scholarship, serves the final end of the new policy not a whit. Letters, interviews, recommendations, prep school grades, and examinations all should continue to be used in choosing the candidates, but the end must be always and frankly in view...
...poet himself. There was the romanticism in the poet's pep talks which many a time sent the credulous Vagabond scampering into the vernal woods seeking that all-instructive impulse and the rather abstruse wisdom of the woodland linnet. Though the Vagabond returned from these escapades usually not a whit wiser, still he feels the chase was worth the leather; even if today he does think differently...
Story started as the private venture of two U. S. writers who were offended by the fact that no solvent publisher ran a magazine exclusively for "the best short stories." Bearded Whit Burnett and his pleasant, bespectacled wife, Martha Foley, were correspondents for the New York Sun in Vienna when they ran off 75 copies of Story's first issue on a rented mimeograph machine. The contents were by themselves and friends, including Kay Boyle and Oliver Gossman. This smudged, amateur attempt set off a literary explosion, is now worth $500 per copy as a curiosity. When they lost...
...fools. They saw that Story was getting no nearer to standing on its own financial bottom. Last week, in announcing its sale to Dr. Simon, they declared: "Story has grown out of the class where it can any longer be treated as a part-time interest." Mildly Editor Whit Burnett mentioned that the old owners had not given him enough money to expand the way he wanted...