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...ebullient, convivial Georgian of 51 who has lived up to his nickname. In 1933 Chip left his Atlanta architectural and engineering firm, which had consulted in some $250,000,000 worth of building projects before Depression, to help Businessman William Woodin as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. Sober Henry Morgenthau relieved him of most of his important duties. But in Washington, where business often mixes with politics, Chip was meanwhile establishing a reputation as the Capital's greatest little mixer. After newshawks caught him and Presidential Secretary Marvin Mclntyre at a hotel room party given by the lobbyist...
Discounting all the evidence of irresponsibility in his work, sober critics are inclined to respect tough, small Pablo Picasso's insistent assertion of his own independence, to find in it an example of commonplace psychological and artistic health. But with equal sobriety they feel that the time is past for amazement, shock or swoon over Pablo Picasso; that young painters had better know their own minds, their craft and their time as well as Picassian esthetics. Says Picasso, bored: "Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of the birds? Why does one love...
Early last autumn sober, learned Editor Hamilton Fish Armstrong of the quarterly Foreign Affairs started in earnest to piece together all the threads of the Czechoslovak crisis for a 15-page article for his magazine. The more Munich was regarded in perspective, however, the larger did it loom as a milestone in history...
Teachers College at Columbia is straying from its task. By the evidence of these recurrent Monday morning sensations, it is more interested in freak publicity than in sober common sense. Teaching is a profoundly important profession and faces a formidable task. The decision at Harvard strengthens it for the struggle. The action of Teachers College at Columbia breaches its defenses. -Boston Evening Globe...
...Lloyd Cassel Douglas' family have a way of blossoming at the age of 50. His father, a worldly, small-town lawyer for 30 years, suddenly turned preacher. He himself, though he wanted to be a doctor, was also a preacher for three sober decades. In the midst of a series of essays on Personality Expansion Through Private Philanthropy, he decided to write a novel. Magnificent Obsession, published (1929) when he was 52, sold about 225,000 copies. Forgive Us Our Trespasses (1932) and Green Light (1935) sold 267,256 copies. Reason: in his novels he kept right on writing...