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...pleasant-faced Dutchwoman who is the distaff equivalent of the Y. M. C. A.'s Dr. John R. Mott- president of the World Council which supervises the shelter, polite recreation and moral uplift of 1,000,000 women in 50 nations. Jonkvrouwe Cornelia M. van Asch van Wyck, 44, is a member of an ancient Utrecht family which has produced magistrates, deputies, mayors, a provincial president and a founder of the University of Utrecht. She has worked among girls for 25 years. Unsalaried, she presides over committee meetings and staff work in Geneva, travels about the world visiting national...
...CADAVER of GIDEON WYCK- Edited by Alexander Laing-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Even readers who pay little attention to publishers' blurbs may find their hackles rising in pleasant anticipation when they spy on The Cadaver of Gideon Wyck's jacket: WARNING People unable to sustain violent shock are advised that they read this book on their own responsibility. AND THE PUBLISHERS REALLY MEAN THIS. The book read, their hackles relapse in disappointment. Though Editor Laing's anonymous tale starts off promisingly enough on horrifying tiptoe, it soon bumps down to the flat policeman tread of any cheerful murder...
...SULU SEA MURDERS-Van Wyck Mason-Crime Club ($2). Captain North of the Army Intelligence perspires freely while solving murder in a tropical outpost. Pearls, meteorology and domestic polyangle show the clues to the culprit...
Harvard men prominent in other fields of endeavor who wrote are: Gamaliel Bradford '86, Van Wyck Brooks '08, W. R. Castle '00, Simon Flexner '06, W. S. Gifford '05, Walter Hampden '00, Charles Evans Hughes LL.D. '10, Walter Lippmann '10, Kenneth MacGowan '11, Benton Mackaye '00, Andrew W. Mellon hon. '26, Ogden L. Mills '05, D. S. Muzzey '93, General Pershing LL.D. '20, William Lyon Phelps A.M. '91, Owen D. Young LL.D...
...personal reason for his bias towards grave thoughts. When he was n he saw his father kill his mother and then commit suicide. Harvardman (1911), Conrad Aiken was Class Poet, in a college generation that included such notables as Thomas Stearns Eliot, the late Alan Seeger, Van Wyck Brooks. Walter Lippmann, the late John Reed, Heywood Broun. Dedicated to literature, Aiken was never