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Harvard has her share of reds--of all shades from a pinkish tint to a dark blood-red--and Harvard is rather fond of them in a very mild sort of way. They add to the variety of the college scene. The extreme radicals, with their clowning, are frequently amusing; while the more moderate radicals are usually more wide-awake, better-informed, and more stimulating company than their less liberal fellows. Progressives are a valuable, even necessary accessory of a community...
...been married, divorced, remarried; has one son. He has founded: the late great Helicon Home Colony, Englewood, N. J. (Utopian colony) ; Intercollegiate Socialist Society (now League for Industrial Democracy); American Civil Liberties Union of California. He has been Socialist candidate: for Congress (N. J.); for Congress, Senate, Governor (Calif.). Fond of suing for libel, he does not always win. Author Sinclair Lewis, when a Yale undergraduate, admired Author Sinclair, left college to take care of Author Sinclair's furnace at Helicon Hall, dropped the Harry from his full name (Harry Sinclair Lewis), later quarreled with Author Sinclair. Author Sinclair...
Author Theodore Francis Powys, 54, is one of three brothers (John Cowper, 57; Llewellyn, 45), all writers, all married, all fond of walking, all clergyman's sons. When some of the Powys's were living in Manhattan a few years ago, Critic Paul Rosenfeld went to call. Said he afterwards : "What a relief to find literary people who have faces!" Author Theodore Francis likes winter weather, prefers villages to live in, believes in monotony. Other books: Fables, An Interpretation of Genesis, Mr. Weston's Good Wine, The House with the Echo...
...Author. Henry Louis Mencken, stocky, with broad, ingenuous face, fond of beer, is 50, a bachelor. A native of Baltimore, he still lives there, edits The American Mercury when he comes (at least once a month) to Manhattan. He worked as reporter on various Baltimore newspapers, became editor of The Smart Set (1914-23) with Critic George Jean Nathan; of The American Mercury (1924). Said Nathan of Mencken: "I respect him, and am his friend, because he is one of the very few Americans I know who is entirely free of cheapness, toadyism and hypocrisy. . . . He is the best fighter...
...great mercantile house in St. Louis. The name indicates his adventurous and individualist spirit. One regrets that he abandoned it for its neutral substitute. He did this in honor of James Smith, head of the firm, who, without adopting him, treated him as a son. Mrs. Smith was equally fond...