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...heavy man puffing his cigar behind the desk and keeping an eye on his critic was Sergeant Ralph Stein, who drew the four dozen cartoons illustrating the metamorphosis of George Finch (147 pounds and he never played in backfield...
Peter Blume's hopes and prophecies were clear enough on his canvas. Italian workers strove toward the sunlit Forum. Mounted Fascist officers, attempting to prevent them, were dragged from their chargers while the uniformed ranks showed signs of mutiny. But many critics seemed decidedly obtuse about The Eternal City. New York Times Critic Edward Alden Jewell declared: "The political aspects of this treatise are not altogether clear. We are left in doubt as to whether the propagandist considers this modern dictator a self-sprung megalomaniac or a figurehead manipulated by social forces...
...Book-of-the-Month judges now number four: Critic Henry Seidel Canby, Novelists Dorothy Canfield Fisher and Christopher Morley, Editor William Allen White. President Scherman has no say in selections, but chooses the "dividend" books...
Poet and dramatist, student of French culture, Jones is also a critic of note, literary editor of the Transcript during the last two years of its life and frequent contributor to the Saturday Review of Literature. He is now finishing the job of editing the letters of William Makepeace Thackcray, which Gordon was forced to abandon for the Navy last December. Professor Jones hopes to have the edited letters ready by the end of the year, believing they will reval a new Thackeray--the Dr. Johnson of the 19th Century...
...warm, human, robust critic of life as well as literature, H. M. Jones is an inspiring personage. Perhaps some measure of the tolerant breadth and intellectual depth of the man may be indicated by his words of 1939 before the Massachusetts Civil Liberties Committee...