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Reader Fletcher's strong Grotonian words fail to abash TIME, which simply quoted the "hideous article" of Columnist Hey wood Broun...
...This New York, his solemn column of social chitchat in the New York Herald-Tribune, Columnist Beebe reported: "It appears that the lads of the upper forms have their own debating teams, pick their own subjects and conduct their oratorical tournaments without let or hindrance from their instructors. Their last jousting was due to fall . . . just before close of school for the summer. . . . It was only toward the end that the headmaster, the Rev. Endicott Peabody, learned the topic under discussion, descended with outraged screams and howls upon the entire program, called everything off and retired to his study mopping...
...Columnist Broun, fonder of Socialists than of socialites, at once cracked wise & down on Beebe, Peabody, and Groton, in his column It Seems to Me in the New York World-Telegram: "It may be held that Dr. Peabody was at fault in merely stopping the debate and not correcting the conditions in the school which made such an attitude possible. In all fairness to the reputation of the educator it should be pointed out that he has to handle a pretty solid phalanx of problem children.* The home influence is very bad in the case of many Groton boys...
...Norwalk, Conn., the annual exhibition is put on by the Silvermine Guild of Artists, a 16-year-old organization whose 310 members include Columnist Westbrook Pegler as well as John Steuart Curry, Novelist Ursula Parrott as well as Artist John Vassos. Most important exhibition this year at the Silvermine Gallery were 21 murals of a social statement show, which is now on tour, most of them explosive, crowded canvases of somewhat labored satire, like James Daugherty's It's Fun to Be Neutral, or solemn, like Howard Hildebrandt's Construction of the Merritt Parkway. Happier and more...
...send Boot to cover the war in Ishmaelia. Lord Copper had never heard of Boot, did not want to admit it, told his foreign editor to get Boot at all costs. The editor made a natural mistake. He shipped William Boot, a quiet, untraveled, eccentric nature columnist on Lord Copper's newspaper, to Ishmaelia. There the wrong Boot found many correspondents but no war, no news, no use for folding boats, surgical instruments, Union Jack and joined flagpole with which he had been provided...