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Died. Dr. Henry Turner Bailey, 65, art educator and critic, onetime (1917-30) dean of the Cleveland School of Art, onetime director of the Chautauqua School of Arts & Crafts; of heart disease; in Chicago...
...Author is a product of the period he writes about, has had a good journalistic bird's-eye view of it. Graduated in 1912 from Harvard (where he worked on the Lampoon with Critic Robert Benchley, Artist Gluyas Williams), he went from a teaching job at his alma mater to the Atlantic Monthly, to the late Century Magazine as its managing editor, to the editorial staff of Harper's Magazine. He is now associate editor of Harper's. Though he has written much for magazines, Only Yesterday is his first book...
...Justin Smith, for five years the spare, bespectacled, kindly managing editor of the Chicago Daily News, knows his city, likes to write about it. His first book on Chicago (Chicago: The History of Its Reputation-TIME, Sept. 9, 1929), written in collaboration with Lloyd Lewis (now Daily News drama critic), delved deep into the gory lore of Chicago's dirty past, took no pains to paint a pretty picture. With a World's Fair in the offing, with a concerted effort on the part of its more worthy citizenry to put raw beefsteak on Chicago's black...
...literary fortune in London. Painfully shy, Shaw's eyes would fill with tears "at the slightest rebuff." First thing he did in the British Museum was read all the books on etiquet. For nine years he wrote unwanted novels and was a complete failure, then his music criticism caught on. When Harris was editor of the Saturday Review he made Shaw his dramatic critic. Shaw's weekly column became a brilliant event...
Publishers of Gentle Reader are Music Critic Samuel Chotzinoff, editor of the magazine, and Managing Editor Richard Manson. Literary editor is Author John Erskine, with whom are associated Lloyd Morris as reviewer of fiction, Byron Steel of biography. Staff writers advertised: Herbert Bayard Swope, politics; Percy Hammond, theatre; Richard Watts Jr., cinema; William Cotton, art; Mary Watkins, dancing...