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...confident of doing so. The last incumbent, who was asked to resign as a result of the Seabury investigation, was a son of the Tiger and by the appearance of his bank account, no idle son. Whom Roosevelt will choose to succeed him is, therefore, a matter of grave concern...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROOSEVELT AND TAMMANY | 2/27/1932 | See Source »

...while others will have to be viewed with considerable doubt. There is little question but that the rules requiring padded equipment, liberalizing the use of substitutes, and preventing the use of a wedge on the kick-off will all meet with approval and have a beneficial effect. They all concern mere technicalities of play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW FOOTBALL RULES | 2/16/1932 | See Source »

...Whom it May Concern: Mr. A. Rattray has ceased to be the hunter to my safari and from this date has no authority to order anything to my account. (Signed) FURNESS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Fiery Furness | 2/15/1932 | See Source »

...written some 18 volumes about the inhabitants of Poictesme. fairyland of his heart's desire, drawn in such mind's-eye detail that he has made maps of it. Born in Richmond, Va., in 1879 ne still does most of his writing there. The biographer of Manuel does not concern himself with ordinary life or contemporary affairs, feels that "Art is a criticism of life only in the sense that prison breaking is a criticism of the penitentiary." Mildly claustropho-biac. his desk faces a doorway; he cannot write unless he can look up and see an exit. His writing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Little Fellows' Big Man | 2/15/1932 | See Source »

...believes, the scholar's "Spiritual aspirations which ought to lean toward the future relapse into a meticulous nostalgia." Academic life, like academic architecture is still medieval, and "it addresses itself far more often than we like to admit to the solution of other men's problems which no longer concern...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE "ACADEMIC" UNDER FIRE | 2/10/1932 | See Source »

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