Word: wyck
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Samuel Eliot Morison '08, professor of History, was presented with the first medal in 1937. In the previous year he had written his definitive "Three Centuries of Harvard." Van Wyck Brooks '08, whose best-selling "The Flowering of New England" won the Pulitzer Prize, was awarded the second medal...
...ENGLAND: INDIAN SUMMER-Van Wyck Brooks-Dutton...
...biographers and critics had a good year, led in interest by Van Wyck Brooks's New England: Indian Summer and in weight by Newman Ivey White's ten-pound, two-volume Shelley. It was the year of a posthumous volume by Mark Twain. The one volume of great poetry was not a new poet's, but the last work of W. B. Yeats...
...BUCHAREST BALLERINA MURDERS - Van Wyck Mason - Stokes ($2). Supersuave treatment of spying in today's Balkans. Major Hugh North, U. S. Intelligence, gets stuck in a Rumanian villa where murder is liberally done for a formula. North finally finds it embroidered on the undies of Contesse di Bruno, who all the time was pert little Connie Fletcher from Kansas...
...Willkie]. ... He should remember he was a poor man himself. He used to pick cotton." Joseph W. Martin Jr.: "I do not choose to enter the Cabinet." Chicago's Mayor Kelly: "We have no voice or control over the ballots as they are marked by the voters." Van Wyck Brooks: "Although I am a Socialist I am voting for President Roosevelt this year because I do not feel that Norman Thomas is realistic regarding the present world crisis." Norman Thomas: "It's a phony campaign. . . ." General Hugh S. Johnson: "Mayor LaGuardia says that if he [Wendell Willkie...