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Humanity, of which Boldini had one understanding, is the constant subject of sad-eyed, diminutive Raphael Soyer, who has another. His twin, Moses, and his Brother Isaac are also able painters, but in the last few years Raphael's single-minded portrayals of pathos in Manhattan's sober poor have given him the greater reputation. Last week his first one-man show since 1935, at the Valentine Gallery, brought 14th Street impressively to fashionable 57th. In Soyer's accomplished paintings of Greenwich Village characters there was neither humor nor brilliance but a great deal of dun truth...
...first twelve years the Saturday Review of Literature, under Editor Henry Seidel Canby, got its reputation as a conservative, conscientious literary journal. Its sober book reviews were coupled somewhat incongruously with the playfully erudite, wambling columns of Christopher Morley, its mildly suggestive personal ads with a weekly puzzle. The leading national book-review weekly, its eminence was made less impressive by the fact that it was the only one in the field. Although now & then the Saturday Review took a flyer in an extended literary appraisal, with articles by Critic John Chamberlain, H. L. Mencken, Van Wyck Brooks...
...best newspapers, like the best people, make mistakes. But seldom is any paper so unfortunate as was the exemplary New York Times last week. One morning the Times's sober obituary page carried accounts of two famed men who had died the day before, Fairfax Harrison, onetime president of the Southern Railway, and Engineer Dexter Parshall Cooper, father of Passamaquoddy's tidal-harnessing project. Each was illustrated with a picture. Unfortunately, the purported likeness of Mr. Harrison bore the easily recognizable features of John Jeremiah Pelley, president of the Association of American Railroads, the picture of Mr. Cooper...
Plans for the meet are being formulated by the Track and Field Committee, consisting of Asa S. Bushnell, Princeton, chairman and executive director of the I.C.4-1., Stanley de J. Osborne, Harvard, H. Jamison Swarts, Pennsylvania, Pincus Sober, C.C.N.Y., Vincent W. Farley, Manhattan, and Francis J. Brennan, Columbia...
...news about cancer to which reputable specialists pay attention is not wild announcements of a sure cure for all types of the disease, but sober reports of cancer facts dug up in laboratories and hospitals which may eventually, by long hard work, lead to a cancer cure. Last week cancer researchers in the U. S., working harder than ever because of new organizations and contributions paid attention to some new cancer facts reported from France and England...