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...William Randolph Hearst continues to be one of the most fabulous figures in the land. Not the least extraordinary thing about him is the fact that, until two months ago, only one full-length Hearst biography between covers was available. That was John K. Winklers IT-. R. Hearst: An American Phenomenon, published in 1928. By last week, as if in competitive haste to turn literary light on the aging publisher, four biographers in quick succession had added three full-length prose portraits to the Hearstian gallery...
...WEBSTER: SCHOOLMASTER TO AMERICA-Harry R. Warfel-Macmillan ($3.50). Though Webster and dictionary are synonymous in the U. S., Noah Webster's posthumous fame is cloudy. He is often confused with Daniel Webster (no kin), and his multitudinous activities have faded from popular memory. Last week, in a full-length biography of Noah Webster, the first in 50 years, Author Warfel dusted the cobwebs off this early Yankee, showed him as a genuine and valuable antique...
...exactly as he lived it." Author Elswyth Thane (Mrs. William Beebe) has a neat thesis which demands more than ordinary biographical skill, but readers of Young Mr. Disraeli last week agreed that she had it. Her biography of Disraeli read like a novel, and a good one. Not a full-length life, it ended with her hero's young manhood. Like a good novelist, Author Thane knew when and where to stop...
...week to make a precedent-shattering decision with respect to British stamps. Ever since the first British adhesive stamp was issued in 1840, the likeness of the Sovereign has been a head-&-neck. Experts of the Post Office have maintained that to show the Sovereign at waist-length or full-length on anything so small as a stamp would be to shrink the royal likeness until it was virtually unrecognizable, even in the case of a Sovereign with a distinctive beard...
...audience sat reverently quiet through the showing of two full-length ballets, eleven solos. Music was played by the London Symphony, conducted by Vladimir Launitz, onetime Russian aviator, who once was Pavlova's musical director. Effects on the screen were sometimes hazy. Many of the pictures had been taken in 1923, some in South America, some in Australia. But it was still possible to marvel at the dancer's incomparable grace, that ethereal quality which made it seem as if she floated through...