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...have never seen so hard working a man in my life. From 9 in the morning until 9 at night is his usual stint. . . . Of course he receives the equivalent of $1,000,000 a year for 'sticking to his job,' but that barely pays his expenses...
...Poet (the late James Whitcomb Riley, personal friend of Dr. Marsh). He preached to "capacity houses," with hundreds being turned from his church door. Now, beginning next month, he will administer the affairs, social, pedagogical and financial, of a city university with 12,000 students-a big job, but his bishop (Bishop Francis J. McConnell) said when he heard the news: "He is far and away the best executive in my area . . . Dr. Marsh will succeed...
...enormous head and wide, staring eyes was born at the Chateau de Blowitz, near Pilsen, Bohemia. Half a century later one Henri Stephan de Blowitz, jack of all trades, paunchy ne'er-do-well, sought the Paris office of the famed London Times and audaciously asked for a job, although he admitted that he had never written a line of news in all his wastrel life...
...Significance. What Mr. Dos Passos set out to do was, obviously, to draw a portrait of Manhattan. He has done a good job, an impressive job. The book is fragmentary and disconnected, told in little scenes, shuffled up almost indiscriminately. One may live in Manhattan for years without ever knowing more than two or three of the types he presents (although the people he presents are nearly always more than types?they are individuals), but the fact that a Manhattan dweller may not see his town as Mr. Dos Passos does, merely shows that the writer has done a thorough...
...solely on whether or not they were dressed in a manner unusual to their sex, whether or not the book opened up large opportunities for them, or whether or not we happened to know them. We mention that last possibility for the sake of those who think this reviewing job is any snap. There's nothing so disconcerting as to be waked up at four in the morning by someone who wants to take a sock at your jaw. We had hoped there'd be a few cripples in the cast to make nasty remarks about, but they all looked...