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Died. Irene Castle, 75, ballroom dancer who was the belle of two continents before World War I; of heart disease; in Eureka Springs, Ark. Daughter of a New York physician, Irene married an impoverished English actor, and almost overnight the dance team of Vernon and Irene Castle became the toast of Paris. By 1912, their dancing and their songs-the Castle Walk and the Maxixe -were sentimental favorites in the U.S. and Europe. In 1916 Vernon joined Canada's Royal Flying Corps and was killed two years later in a training accident. Irene later remarried three more times...
...Died. Vernon Duke, 69, Russian-born songwriter who scored many Broadway and London musical hits (Cabin in the Sky, Two Little Girls in Blue) with such well-remembered favorites as April in Paris, Autumn in New York and Taking a Chance on Love; of lung cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif...
Perhaps the most famous blind student in the world is Harold E. Krents, Harvard graduate and second-year Harvard Law student. Hal won international reknown when he was classified 1-A by Local Draft Board 10 in Mount Vernon, N.Y. last spring. Hal said he would be glad to serve his country in any way possible, but hoped he'd be able to request the post of bombardier. His "Open Letter to General Hershey," to the tune of "On Top of Old Smokey" was printed in Esquire this fall. Legally blind since birth, Hal had limited vision until...
...Your review of Richard Hofstadter's book [Oct. 25] gives a misleading impression of one of The Progressive Historians. I knew well and remember as a very great teacher Vernon Louis Parrington. From the review, one would judge that he never left the Middle West. In point of fact, he was an undergraduate at Harvard, and the last 20 or more years of his mere 58 were spent as a professor at the University of Washington...
...ideal with exploitive American practices began to be the constant concern of a handful of historians. Their efforts and ideas form the background of this book by Columbia University's Richard Hofstadter. The Progressive Historians tells the story of three men-Frederick Jackson Turner, Charles A. Beard and Vernon L. Parrington-who did the most to shape America's image of its history as a tapestry of continued progress. Part biography, part intellectual history, part scholarly polemic, the volume is a sharp but generous inquiry into the underlying conceptions of American history and the reasons for writing...