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...Reader Smith is entitled to believe his grandfather Joseph Smith. Many others believe Brigham Young, who declared when Mormon polygamy was openly proclaimed at Salt Lake City that Joseph Smith had 27 secret wives besides Emma. Critic Bernard DeVoto (son of a Notre Dame mathematician, a Mormon mother) admitted that Joseph Smith had only five "official" children by his "official" wife Emma...
...angry, frightened people, the press, Congress were beyond accepting such answers. Savage, often uninformed and unjust critics screamed at generals and admirals. Massachusetts' well-informed young Senator Lodge set the Senate by the ears with a resolution providing what many a temperate critic has long demanded, what many another within the services has secretly advocated: a full, impartial investigation of U. S. defense needs, method, purpose. Congressmen sensitive to clamor from home had up a batch of admirals (Robinson, Furlong, Van Keuren), gave the wallowing sea dogs hell. So hot was the attack that Minnesota's Melvin Maas...
Feminine chuckles, a few scattered laughs, and now and then a rather intelligent remark, are combined in such a way as to form a vocal accompaniment to the thematic display of Pablo Picasso's paintings in the Boston Museum. Picasso is not, as one critic put it, an "enfant terrible"; he is a very fine artist who is intelligent enough to warrant being called the most original cclectic in the history...
Otherwise, Tap Day ran true to form. Absent from Branford Court but eventually bagged by Bones in his room was another critic of the societies, Kingman Brewster's roommate, William Eldred Jackson, son of U. S. Attorney General Robert H. Jackson. Bones also got its Armenian, Newsman Barooyr Zorthian...
...writers chosen are: Howard Baker, poet, novelist, and critic, who wrote "Orange Valley" in 1931 and "Induction to Tragedy" in 1939; Robert G. Davis '29, critic, author of reviews and critical articles for many periodicals; Mark Schorer, novelist, essayist, and critic, who wrote the novel "A House Too Old" in 1935, and is now preparing "Live In It Merrily" and "The Revolt of William Blake"; Delmore Schwartz, winner of the Guggenheim award in the field of writing for next year and author of "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities" in 1938; and Wallace Stegner, novelist, who has written "Remembering Laughter...