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...lives on Manhattan's Park Avenue and keeps a vast collection of aeronauticana. The Park Avenue lady proceeded to surround herself with Lindbergh portraits. She owns a cup & saucer used on the first Graf Zeppelin flight. Her name is Bella Landauer and she is the wife of Isidor Nathan Landauer who makes Sealpacker-chiefs. Last week at Manhattan's Old Print Shop Mrs. Landauer exhibited one of her prize possessions-a collection of aeronautical songs...
With Road of Ages Author Nathan hits a wholly serious, grave note even though he is still technically engaged in writing fantasy. The book's title refers to the path to exile which the Jew has trod in many ages, from the time Edward I drove him out of England down to the latest edict of Realmleader Hitler. When Mr. Nathan picks up the thread of this millennial-long Diaspora, every country on the face of the earth, with the single exception of Mongolia, has ordered the Jews into banishment. Readers first meet the race in Road of Ages...
...nation. The Communist Jews insist that all property be pooled. The Socialist Jews do not know what they want. And the liberal Jews are occasionally wounded in trying to keep the Socialists and the Communists from killing each other before they have even reached the new Promised Land. Mr. Nathan seems to be protesting that there is no such thing as the typical Jew, that as a race they, too, have their class differences and tend to take on characteristics dictated by different environments; that, in short, it is idiotic to set the Semitic nation apart, label...
...Author is a descendant of Rabbi Gershom Seixas, who came to America in 1710 and helped incorporate Columbia College, a nephew of Maud Nathan, founder of The Consumers' League, and of Annie Nathan Meyer, founder of Barnard College. But as a Jew, Robert Nathan found things difficult at Exeter and at Harvard. His ancestry supposedly kept him from being president of the Harvard Monthly. As a poet he found the "good bourgeois Jews themselves" against him because he was "a bad business risk." Fear of what the "good bourgeois Jews" might say has made Mr. Nathan sensitive about...
Once called by his friends "the Jewish Hamlet," because of his lean, ascetic face, Mr. Nathan now boasts a growing waistline that causes him to toy with the idea of substituting sailing for such strenuous pastimes as fencing and tennis. He will no longer play the cello, for his professional cellist wife, Nancy Wilson, makes him embarrassed about his inferior skill...