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...reprint in "The Stentor" of Lake Forest college of your story on R.B. Williams and his criticism of Mr. Hawes "Twenty Years Among the Twenty-Year-Olds" has come to amuses me. As an alumnus of Lake Forest college wholly out of sympathy with Mr. Williams and his clumsinesses, I thought that you might be interested in knowing some of the funnier things about...
...Painters and Sculptors Gallery Association, proprietors of the big showrooms above Grand Central station, has hitherto specialized in the work of academicians like George de Forest Brush, Herbert Adams, Edwin Howland Blashfield. This year they invited the Downtown Gallery, protagonist of modernism, to arrange a show. The exhibits, totalling 132 paintings, water colors, drawings, prints, sculptures, filled seven of the eleven galleries, will remain until the middle of February. The exhibitors...
...windy clearing surrounded by a forlorn forest of scrub pines is the setting of the Naval Air Station in Lakehurst. N. J. Above the plain looms a sombre hangar, home of the Navy's Los Angeles and of other dirigibles when they visit the U. S., a structure so enormous that it has contained two mammoth and two smaller bags all at once. But, even in the Skyscraper Age, size is not everything. The relatively tiny, thoughtfully beautiful chapel may attract quite as much attention as the mighty, bleakly utilitarian hangar...
Last fall the Johnsons visited the U. S. but have now gone to the Itura forest in Africa to make sound-pictures of pygmies, of the jungle at night...
Pilots expect what to the rest of the world is the unusual-forest fires, lost parties, calls for ambulance service, mineral deposits, migrating caribou, herded reindeer. In New Brunswick bears might steal a pilot's food. In Hudson Bay a seaplane might be bumped by a white whale...