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...which was one of the best shows of 1939; and settled down on a farm in Pennsylvania's Bucks County which he bought from Michael Gold. More recently he has run a radio show (Author, Author); and for seven years he has been writing pieces for The New Yorker. Look Who's Talking, like Strictly From Hunger (1937), is a collection of these pieces and several from other periodicals...
Dewey. For months political wiseacres have poohed the rapid rise of New York's Thomas E. Dewey. Winks went around: "He looks good now, but wait till the experts work out on him." Last week two experts got to work on young Mr. Dewey. In the New Yorker, mordant Wolcott Gibbs, who believes in mixing plenty of gall with his ink, profiled Mr. Dewey enthusiastically in an article that read like a long, catlike scratch. Mr. Gibbs on Mr. Dewey...
Since then Editor Macdonald has blown a sharp if not widely audible pipe against the New Deal, The New Yorker, TIME ("major house organ for the American business class"), the post 1930 Soviet cinema. No less snappish is the Partisan Review theatre critic, Mary McCarthy (Mrs. Edmund Wilson), who breaks Broadway butterfly hits on an ironbound esthetic wheel. At the peak of Partisan Review sophistication stands Art Critic Morris, whom practically nothing pleases. "It is something less than an exaggeration," writes Critic Morris with his characteristic faint shudder, "to state that the painting and sculpture being 'encouraged...
Traditionally sophisticated, Vassar undergraduates turn up their noses at "rah-rah" stuff, avoid exercise, have on their list of favorites Tommy Dorsey's orchestra, the Stork Club, Yale, the film You Can't Take It with You, the New Yorker magazine.* Although Vassar is expensive ($1,855 a year), Mrs. Allen declares that "the snobbishness of wealth just does not exist there," there are no sororities, one-fifth of the students get scholarships...
...upstate New Yorker by birth, dry, soft-spoken Professor Gabriel, 50, has done all his teaching at Yale, with time out as an infantry lieutenant during World War I. In the past eight years his course in "American Thought and Civilization" has significantly outstripped in popularity elegant Professor Chauncey Brewster Tinker's "Age of Johnson" and now, with 350 students, has the largest crowd in the university. Textbookish in getup and without resort to charm, his book is strictly and impressively U. S. stuff, the richest work of its kind since Parrington's Main Currents of American Thought...