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...ROSE? Stark Young??? Scribner...
...William Preston Few. Tall, lank, Vandyke-bearded, he waves cheerily to one & all as he strolls about his campus. Once an English professor, he became president of Trinity College in 1910. His campus nickname: "Sis." His fellow townsmen remember that when the children of Benjamin Newton Duke were young???Mary, and "Angy" (Angier), who fell from a yacht tender at Newport in 1923 and was drowned?Dr. Few used to ride with them in their ponycart. Like many another Duke official, he is a Rotarian. A friend of North Carolina's hard-bitten little Methodist ex-Senator Furnifold McLendel Simmons...
...Street been called upon a year ago to name the chairman of any great U. S. corporation, he would most probably have snapped back "Gary?U. S. Steel." This year, not quite so quickly, he would name "Owen D. Young???General Electric...
HEAVEN TREES?Stark Young??? Scribner ($2). When Critic Stark Young of the New Republic was a small boy, he lived (he now pretends) on a big, easygoing plantation near Memphis. It was called "Heaven Trees," a place of calm walks and lawns, fragrant with myrtle and syringa. His gentle Southern kinfolk were surrounded with their slaves, cottonfields and traditional propertied indolence, the men riding blooded horses and holding long argument over cold juleps; the ladies, pert and lovely to behold, keeping the large household continually open to visitors for a night, a week, a year...
...Stark Young???"I was surprised not to find The Little Minister a more worthwhile play...