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...correct that James Still (River of Earth, TIME, Feb. 5) was "educated at Vanderbilt," but he, as did "better-known 'Mountaineer Poet,' Jesse Stuart," received his A. B. degree from Lincoln Memorial University...
Graduated from Vanderbilt in 1915 Stewart first became connected with the University nine years ago when he aided in the construction of Wigglesworth Hall. He is a construction engineer...
...gone into its transatlantic run, and Pan Am, so they thought, had grown too big for one boss. Last March Juan Trippe's wings were clipped. To by-pass most of his administrative functions, the Board named another man Chief Executive Officer: its chairman, polo-playing Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, one of the original Argonauts who backed Trippe 14 years ago and had been Trippe's friend through most of the great adventure...
...sense of what is fitting, in the best meaning of the word, is an invaluable attribute of a writer. Among other good qualities, it is one that James Still seems to have achieved. Born 30 years ago in the hills of Alabama, brought up in Tennessee, educated at Vanderbilt, Still has written some modest but unmistakable poetry (Hounds on the Mountain). River of Earth is his first novel. The problem it fairly solves is that faced by many Southern novelists: how to be sectional without being affected. The horizon in River of Earth is limited to Hardin County, Kentucky, simply...
...with the audience, they routed Al Smith out of his seat, had customers in profusion and the house in an uproar. On the opening night of the Vanities, when Carroll's prettiest girls went down into the aisles to play Patticake, they glad-eyed everybody from Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt to an old man from Sioux City, but not a soul would play...