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...progressive tradition. Those who do not know Mr. Seymour will see in his election a fitting reward for long years of service to Yale and exceptional ability displayed in that service. Those who do know him will rejoice with him in his new honor, knowing as they do the talent and devotion which he will bring to his task. Yale News...
With the announcement that Harvard is about to go on the air comes a creeping fear that the talent of this University will not measure up favorably with the more extravagant and better advertised radio programs. Perhaps this very fear will do more than anything else to make lectures here the best-planned and most informative in the country. For when Yale and Chicago follow our lead to the microphone competition will have begun in earnest and America's oldest university will have the chance to show the world its real appeal...
THESE two books show that Mr. Auden's poetic talent is still prolific, but its direction is as confused as ever. The first is a play, the prose passages of which are written by Mr. Isherwood, a young British author who has won some fame as translator of Bandelaire's journals and as the creator of one of the nastiest characters in contemporary fiction. Despite the high rhetoric of the verse, and the crisp, business-like tone of the prose, the play is essentially unsuccessful, at least in the study. Whether it may act well is another question, which...
Andre Kostelanetz is a plump, semi-bald radio orchestra leader of high talent. Last summer he achieved the kind of publicity radiofolk dote on by flying from New York to Los Angeles and back on 13 consecutive week ends. In Manhattan he conducted a radio show; in Hollywood he would ask Lily Pons to marry him. On the 13th proposal she said, "Yes." Last week they were still unwed, but Musician Kostelanetz received a reward for his persistence...
...that young men of unequivocal intellectual promise "should have made available to them, no matter in what part of the country they may be living, the opportunity for training at one of our great historic seats of learning is a matter of distinct national importance, for only as genuine talent is discovered and cultivated can we properly capitalize our human resources, only thus can we make progress out of the intellectual mediocrity which characterizes so much of our education...