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...Selected Short Stories, classified himself as an incurable romantic. Explaining that most of his stories had been hastily dished up, warmed over from some previous mood, Author Lewis apologized for their optimism and superficiality, admitted that he thought two or three were "fairly good," declared himself a romantic whose talent had been diverted to the paths of social satire by "some mysterious trick of destiny." Whether or not Author Lewis wrote his introduction with his tongue in his cheek, the stories that followed it, with but one shining exception, proved to be long-winded and mechanical, written according...
...beard and the talent of Richard Michell Upjohn were both shorter than those of his illustrious father, but he had a burning pride in his firm, inherited his father's deep devotion to the Episcopal Church and the Gothic style. Buildings by Upjohn II include the Connecticut Capitol at Hartford, Boston's Central Congregational Church, St. Paul's Church in Brooklyn, Manhattan's Trinity School...
...witnessed a few very good pictures, a great many mediocre pictures, and thousands of rotten ones. Conservative estimates would allott at least two thousand hours of my time to learning from Clark Gables and Anne Hardings how to spend my free time. I have brought sincerity, humor, and writing talent to my work and reach a circle of 3500 interested subscribers...
...likes it. Two years ago dancing collegians turned to the stomping Casa Lomas. But with success the Casa Lomas are more & more mechanical. The Vallée band plays just as it always has, but Conductor Rudy has proved an unexpected showman, smart enough in radio to find new talent, provide a skillful frame. Most "hot" jazz fans still regard black Duke Ellington as the greatest of jazz orchestra leaders. Benny Goodman is currently the peer of "hot" white musicians, having supplanted the Dorsey Brothers, who have commercialized their idiom...
Long before anyone ever heard of Lindbergh, Chamberlin, Post or Earhart, one of aviation's big names was Bert Acosta. Famed as a ''natural" among pilots, he probably had a greater talent for flying than any man before or since. But like many another early barnstormer and stunter, he took to the fleshpots on earth as an offset to his work in the air. His life, consequently, became a rowdy romance in which brawls, jails and domestic entanglements were due to play a large part...