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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nostalgic books about the agrarian past have grown in popularity-books by and about grandmothers and grandfathers, memoirs of farm childhoods. One of the most popular was Delia Thompson Lutes's The Country Kitchen, recalling the Michigan childhood of a sturdy, quick-eyed girl who grew up to edit women's magazines, write etiquette books, &detest Faulkner and the end of Anthony Adverse.& The American Booksellers Association voted it &the most original book of 1936.& Its originality was its oldtime local color, particularly in its vivid reminder of Mother's cooking on the farm. And it sold...
Members of the committee were assigned definite work for the preparation of the book. Robert E. L. Strider '39 will have charge of the photography, Richard H. Sullivan '39 will act as Business Manager, James Tobin '39 will edit all general articles, and Harold M. Curtis, Jr. '39 will see to the preparation of all writeups regarding athletics, publications, and organizations...
...whose development requires more length and leisure than the short story, and yet "is in the nature of the short story in its unity of effect." Last week they demonstrated some of the possibilities of the form in a collection of five "novellas" chosen from Story magazine, which they edit. Although the book was launched to the accompaniment of resounding praise by short-story experts, any one of whose superlatives could qualify as the blurb of the week, readers less attentive to the nuances of the art might have difficulty in seeing what the "novellas" gained by being three times...
Knotty problems had caused the delay. Mixed up with the idea of a magazine for insiders, Publisher Smart had another idea of a magazine for the underdog, militantly antifascist. First editor hired was Jay Cooke Allen, whose scoops as a foreign correspondent of the Chicago Tribune qualified him to edit a magazine for insiders. Off to Europe he hustled last summer to rake up new background, returned and began to gather a staff of militant liberal writers...
When Manager Kraska obtained the U. S. rights to Monastery, he invited his good friend Father Ahern to help him cut, revise and edit it, as well as deliver a dubbed-in commentary. For the jovial, baldish Jesuit, this was a congenial assignment. Father "Mike" Ahern, 60, is an accomplished Catholic publicist. Head of the departments of chemistry and geology at Weston College, New England Jesuit training college, he is also a teacher of philosophy, science and theology at Boston College, and, since 1929, speaker on Boston station WNAC's "Catholic Truth Period...