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Professor Brinton and his department should feel flattered that the critic from the wilderness should have such a glorified impression of the importance of the History Department. Forty or fifty years ago history professors all over the country were Harvard trained, it is true, and any Harvard Ph.D. could take his pick of college teaching jobs. Today the universities of the South and the West turn out their own professors, and Harvard's influence is small...
Deems Taylor, prominent music critic and composer, in recognition of its merit, reviewed and evaluated the history of the Pierian on the regular Sunday Afternoon Concert of the Columbia Broadcasting Company last week...
...Critic. Near Boise, Idaho, a duck hunter shot & shot, missed & missed. Finally his sympathetic dog swam out and fetched him a decoy...
...foreword, Critic Wilson states his belief that The Last Tycoon is Fitzgerald's "most mature" work, that Hero Monroe Stahr was the most thoroughly explored of all Fitzgerald characters. Stahr was an executive and creative genius of motion pictures, a "boy wonder" at 22, later boss and three-quarters owner of a big studio. Under him the movies reached a sort of golden age. After him the industry grew too complicated for one man to keep his hand on everything in a studio. Stahr "had flown up very high to see, on strong wings, when he was young...
...Hollywood last winter (TIME, Jan. 27), he left part of a novel which he had been pondering for three years, and a voluminous pile of notes on the unwritten part of the story. There was some talk, then, of having another writer complete the novel from the notes. But Critic Edmund Wilson, friend of Fitzgerald and his "intellectual conscience," chose another way to get this truncated work before the public...