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Died, Admiral William Sowden Sims, 77, U.S.N. retired, Wartime Commander of the U. S. Fleet in European waters; after a heart attack; in Boston. As a Naval observer in China and St. Petersburg, he became so vociferous a critic of the efficiency of the U. S. Navy that in 1908 his friend Roosevelt I had to save him from court martial. During the War he commanded 373 ships, 81,000 men. Said he two years ago: "The sea is fine when viewed from shore . . . but I never liked going...
...half year. His courses will be on "The Modern English Novel" and "The Elizabethan Dramatists." An Englishman, Dr. Farmer graduated from the University of Manchester, and subsequently moved to France. His publications have concerned English Literature in the late 19th Century, particularly the works of Walter Pater, essayist and critic...
This time they have been trying to succeed in breaking and ousting from the Russian Communist Party every critic of the Dictator-following the execution by firing squads of 16 of his critics as "Trotskyites" (TIME, Sept. 7). Last week the hounding and persecution of even faintly suspect Party comrades had reached such ridiculous lengths that Party headquarters in Moscow, with or without orders from Stalin, called a halt and slapped into Soviet newsorgans glaring examples of overzeal...
...possible that your cinema critic could have been mistaken in stating that Victor More made his screen debut in Swing Time (TIME, Sept...
...form with all his old perfection...but life shook before his eves, like the picture on the surface of a pond when a stone has disturbed its tranquil mirror." Readers who can appreciate such portaits will recognize that Van Wyck Brooks has succeeded as has no other U. S. critic in interpreting the masters of naitive art and, without reducing their stature in the slightest, made them simple and understandable in their greatness...