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...Whoever it may be mentioned Nelson Eddy's dimples in the rotten review of The Girl of The Golden West (March 21), I have some 500 odd photos of the "Dimpled Nelson Eddy," all minus the dimples! I would appreciate it if your movie critic would send me a "dimpled" picture of Mr. Eddy...
...Levinson's book, Critic Lewis remarked: "It contains some magnificent reporting...
During the late '20s The New Yorker employed a bright young man who wrote a column called The Sky Line, noting the erection of Manhattan's new apartment houses and office buildings. In the criticism of architecture The Sky Line included such amiable judgments as that the new, incredibly ornate and lugubrious Roxy Theatre was "a truly fine expression of what a place of entertainment should be." In the autumn of 1932 Lewis Mumford took over The Sky Line and speedily transformed it into its present role of the most perceptive, severe and expert column of architectural criticism...
...already strenuous list of activities, Mumford in 1931 added that of Visiting Professor of Art at Dartmouth, a job he filled until three years ago. With Esthete Paul Rosenfeld, Bard Alfred Kreymborg and Critic Van Wyck Brooks he founded The American Caravan to publish experimental writing. On this board of editors Lewis Mumford was the golden mean. In a sense he has performed the same function among liberal and left-wing thinkers. Without the literary edge and personality of an Edmund Wilson (TIME, March 21) but also without the slightest trace of malice or partisanship, Lewis Mumford has displayed...
...Jack H. Sandground, assistant professor and Curator of Helminthology at the Medical School, who will investigate comparative parasitology in the Dutch East Indies; and Clyde E. Keeler, instructor in Ophthalmic Research, who will write a book on genetics in relation to medicine. Richard P. Blackmur, well-known Boston critic, was also awarded a fellowship...