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...regarded as a prime test of the legality of the U. S. cinema distributing system. Died. Harold Ellicott Scarborough, 38, until lately European editorial manager and head of the London Bureau of the New York Herald Tribune; by leaping from the Southampton-bound Berengaria off the Isle of Wight. With the Tribune and Herald Tribune since 1920, he had been recalled to Manhattan to write editorials, had resigned instead to free-lance in London. Died. Dr. Dorothy Scarborough, 58, author, associate professor of English at Columbia University where she conducted a popular course in novel and short-story writing; after...
Coming to Harvard this year as lecturers and tutors in Sociology are Edward Wight Bakke, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Yale, and Howard Paul Becker, Associate Professor of Sociology at Smith College. Dr. Bakke will be at Harvard during the second half-year and Dr. Becker during the first half-year...
...Louis Philippe, an extraordinary crime, involving a smuggler's daughter, a great prince and the royal family, shocked a France that had become thoroughly accustomed to lurid intrigues and vile conspiracies. The smuggler's daughter was Sophie Dawes, brawny, coarse, mean-tempered Englishwoman from the Isle of Wight. The prince was Louis Henri Joseph, Duc de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, who had picked Sophie up in a London brothel. She was given great estates by her lover, was received by the king, moved in the highest French society despite her lack of tact, her shameless social climbing...
SOUTH - Frederick Wight - Farrar & Rinehart...
Southern novelists from Stark Young to Erskine Caldwell have written of small sections of their native regions, but have attempted no comprehensive pictures of Southern society as a whole. It has remained for Frederick Wight. Northern portrait painter turned Southern novelist, to offer a long (634 pages), ambitious book in which almost all classes and degrees of Southerners-impoverished blue bloods, fox hunting pretenders, millhands, Negroes, intellectuals-are conscientiously fitted into the fictional picture. The result is somewhat reminiscent of an old-fashioned tableau, with symbolic figures representing Poverty lurking miserably on one side of the stage while heedless Wealth...