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Almost lost among the horde of New- Dealers who overrun Washington is a retired Manhattan lawyer named Edward Bruce. He holds no important portfolio, has no mouth-filling title, draws no fancy salary. Yet he works well and hard for his friend in the White House by giving special advice to the State and Treasury Departments. As an expert on silver, he accompanied the U. S. delegation to the ill-starred London Economic Conference last June...
Whit Burnett and Martha Foley, I fear, have been more successful with the magazine than they have been with the anthology which contains only a few outstanding short stories. First, I shall touch briefly on the self-conscious authors who treat sex sensationally, and badly; into this category come Bruce Brown, Erskine Caldwell, James Stern, and George Albee. The last man mentioned describes pithily and dully the reactions of a seventeen-year-old boy when he is assured that he has contracted syphilis from a girl whom he loves. "Week-End," by Carlton Brown is an amusing description...
Kidnapping is a detestable crime which should be wiped out, but the barbarous methods that you sanction to accomplish this end are infinitely worse. David R, Schwartz Robert Rice Thomas Goldfrank Bruce Bliven...
Other promising fencers attending were Richard Morgan, 4th, '36, Joseph A. Weber '35, Morton Grant '36, and Roward B. Reynolds '36 in the saber; Bruce H. Billings '36, Manley B. Cohen '36, and John B. Hickam '36 in the foil; Richard Ford '36, and Sheldon Smolian '36 in the epee. Morgan, Grant, and Hickam all fenced on the 1933 Freshman team...
...Bruce Black, President of the Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, denied that his company had anything to do with this movement. He said that policies were granted purely on individual merit, and that there was no discrimination against any class...