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Philip Hale: Acute and learned critic, striving to promote the arts of music and improve the public taste...
...degrees were Lewis William Douglas, director of the federal budget; Wilbur Lucius Cross, Governor of Connecticut; Harry Emerson Fosdick, pastor of Riverside Church, New York City; Louis Edward Kirstein, Boston philanthropist; Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard Observatory; George David Birkhoff '05, Perkins Professor of Mathematics; Philip Hale, dramatic critic of the Boston Herald; Francis Welles Hunnewell '02, secretary to the Harvard Corporation; Joseph Rochomont Hamlen, president of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin...
Editor John Collings Squire of the London Mercury, poet, critic, parodist...
...course of life did not lead to a scholarship; and at the age of seventeen, the had went to work for a bookseller in Paternoster Row at twenty pounds a year. In these days every shilling he had went into theatre tickets; and he dreamed of being a dramatic critic. But the following year his career was definitely set in another direction, for he got a job with W. T. Stead on "The Review of Reviews...
...Pujo Committee 20 years ago. Very earnest-every inch the prosecutor-was Mr. Pecora. Very courtly Morgan's learned counsel. Mr. Davis. Only flare-ups of anger were between testy Senator Glass and Mr. Pecora over the course which the inquiry was taking. Mr. Glass, long a severe critic of our bankers, grew impatient with the mass of curiosity-questions not pertinent to the banking questions. Senator most critical of Morgan was Mr. Couzens...