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Alexander Woollcott

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8 picks · 1925–1936

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THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT.
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PROFILE of Elliott Humphrey, founder of the Seeing Eye, a preparatory school at Morristown, N. J., where German shop herd dogs are taught to companion the …

Reunion in Paris
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An uncommon coincidence restores order to the universe in this Shouts & Murmurs story from 1932.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Slow Rise to American Fame
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Alexander Woollcott on the modern architect’s early work, including the earthquake-resistant Imperial Hotel, in Tokyo, and his home at Taliesin, in Wisconsin, and his belated rise to fame in America.

"Office-boy of Destiny"
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Profile of Sam Zolotow, editor of the magazine and former office boy of the Times.

After June 30th, the Deluge
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Emanuel Julius, Jew from Philadelphia, worked for Socialist weekly paper. Migrated to Girard, Kansas and married Marcet Haldeman, daughter of late Mrs. …