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Seated for a year in the Library of Congress' chair of poetry (vacant since 1941) was Southern Agrarian Poet-Critic-Historian (Ode to the Confederate Dead) Allen John Orley Tate. His duties: the care and feeding of the poetry collection...
...connoisseurs of piano music would place Pianist Horowitz with the top-rank interpretive artists such as Artur Schnabel, Artur Rubinstein, or Walter Gieseking. But in everything involving sheer, crystalline dexterity, Vladimir Horowitz tops every one of them. Son of a Kiev electrical engineer, nephew of a Russian music critic, Vladimir Horowitz gave his first concerts during the dog days of the Russian revolution. He was sometimes paid in butter, flour and cabbages...
...tremendous, to put it mildly. Within a month after publication, the successive printings of the book have topped one million copies, and "One World" at present heads all lists of non-fiction, surely a record to cause all other publishers to glower greenly at the Publishers S. As one critic put it, the vogue of the book lies in the fact that Willkie decided to write it himself, instead of employing a "ghost" writer. Mr. Willkie writes easily; he has a journalist's eye for the significant details of a situation, the image that crystallizes and reinforces impression and opinion...
...European staff in 1924, O'Flaherty will leave for the Southwest Pacific to report World War II, replacing the News's George Weller, Pulitzer Prizewinner, who is ill. New News managing editor: Lloyd Downs Lewis, 52, a jack-of-many-newspaper-trades (book reviewer, historian, drama critic, author, sports editor) whom the late Raconteur Alexander Woollcott once called "the best newspaperman in the United States...
...argued that the film "fails utterly to do justice to Russia, grossly misrepresents the United States, and would not sell international cooperation to anybody." Author Max Eastman (Stalin's Russia and the Crisis in Socialism) considered it "the high point of a wave of national self-abasement." Literary Critic Edmund Wilson, a onetime Marxist, saw it as a "fraud on the American people...