Word: columbianization
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...Theatre in New Orleans last week, was marked by plain clothes and sincere praise. What the audience of educators, legislators, literati and plain people saw was a motion picture of startling photographic beauty, sweeping scope and social importance. A swift cinematic history of the vast Mississippi system from pre-Columbian times to yesterday afternoon, an inventory of its bounty and its toll, a report of Government reclamation activity, The River was in the same small class with Robert Flaherty's Mo'ana, John Grierson's Drifters, Joris Ivens' New Earth...
...role of a new Messiah, a saviour of the city; he has promised, in his own words, "to save society." And to this Judge Seabury counters that he wants to save it "from the best mayor the city has ever had," and to save it for "that line old Columbian order . . . that certainly . . . believes that charity begins at home...
Harry March once liked football go much that he sample under assumed names at four schools, Ohio State, Oberlin, Kenyen College, and Mount Union College. He gave his first name at Columbian (now George Washington University) and took and M.D. in 1901. Unlike many tramp football stars, Dr. March had a sharp and restless mind. He established a good medical practice, but kept his thoughts in the pigskin world by writing sport stories. The idea of writing he received for Authors Channing Pollack and Don Marquis, his Columbia roommates...
...Runner Glenn Cunningham: the Columbian Mile, feature race of the Knights of Columbus Track Meet, for the fifth consecutive year; in Manhattan. Last major race of the board-track season, the Columbian Mile is often the most remarkable. In 1934, Cunningham won it in the amazingly fast time of 4:08.4, a world's record (indoors). In 1936, when all the entrants were too cautious to set the pace, he won in the ridiculously slow time of 4:46.8. Last week, the race upheld its tradition. Cunningham, climaxing a season in which he has won five...
...book begins with a preface by mountain-carving Sculptor Gutzon Borglum in which he writes: "Mrs. Logan has said: 'Art is colossal. . . .'" This is followed by a few brief chapters by the author herself extolling the Columbian World's Fair of 1893, objecting to French moderns, primitive art and such isms as cubism and surrealism. Says she: "Sanity in Art means soundness, rationalism, a correct integration of the art work itself in accordance with some internal logic. We know sanity is often difficult to define, and we also know insanity is often apparent at a glance...