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...urbane satirist. It has had bucolic satirists, like Finley Peter ("Mr. Dooley") Dunne and Mark Twain, bull-roarers like H. L. Mencken, splenetic idealists like Sinclair Lewis, ironic fantasists like James Branch Cabell and Robert Nathan. But last week critics hitched up their chairs, clapped on their best glasses and took a good hard look at Thomas Sigismund Stribling's latest novel, Sound Wagon. Before reading it, few would have admitted that Author Stribling might be capable of urbanity, let alone sustained satire. After reading it, many might have allowed that here at last was a U. S. satirical...
...business ventures as the TVA, such regulatory bodies as the SEC (TIME, Feb. 4). The government department and Law School devised special programs. What was needed, however, was a separate graduate school. Last week Harvard got one. The public-spirited donor, found after 30 years of search, was Lucius Nathan Littauer...
Littauer is the biggest name in the U. S. glove industry. Lucius Littauer's father Nathan started in business peddling gloves from house to house in upstate New York, ended by founding Littauer Brothers. Son Lucius went to Harvard where he made close friends with Theodore Roosevelt, played football, rowed on the crew, began his philanthropies by helping classmates through college. Graduating in 1878, he presently took over and built up his father's business. Gloveman Littauer's own career as a public servant began in 1897 when his glovemaking neighbors sent him to Congress...
Since then his activities have been largely in the philanthropic field. In Gloversville he erected the Nathan Littauer Hospital and Laboratory in memory of his father. This led him to a broad interest in the support of medical research, particularly in the fields of pneumonia, diabetes, cancer, mental hygiene, and heart disease...
With this broad purpose, he has provided the opportunity to hundreds of young men and women for higher education toward professional and social betterment careers. In 1925 he established the Nathan Littauer Professorship of Jewish Literature and Philosophy at Harvard