Page Six.
THE SALEMITE
April 5, 1946.
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Edward Weeks Is Seeking
A Young American Humorist
Shown above are three Salem girls learning some golf techniques. The girls are Euth Hayes, Ticka Senter, and
Betsy John Forrest.
Add) Love, Second, Doubles
‘■‘Id the spring a young man’s
fancy turns to love, but at Salem
its to love games. Yep, that’s right,
tennis. “My add, duee,' doubles,
seconds, our game”—these are the
cries, that greet you on the walk
down to the courts.
Never let it be said that Salem
has no Alice Marble or Don Budge.
Have you seen Dr. and Mrs. Confer
play, not to mention Miss Byrd,
Dr. Jordan, and Mr. Evettt If you
want to see the faculty let their
hair down, just witness one of
their tennis matches.
Frequently seen on the courts are
Henry Walton and Lucy Scott.
These two “about seniors” are
getting back hands, forward hands,
right hands, left hands to perfection.
While watching them perform, I
heard a whooping noise as Coit Efd
fern and Sarah Coe descended upon
the courts—their motto “to lose
ten pounds in two weeks.”
Who said that the upperclassmen
outdid the underclassmen! Literally
‘ ‘ on the ball” are Eaton Seville and
Peggy Ann Watkins, the long and
short of it, who are determined to
learn to play as well as Dee and
Peggy Witherington.
Of course, besides the after lunch
and supper matches, there’s tennis
in physical ed. Wander down any
Monday or Wednesday morning and
watch Jean Griffin and Margaret
West battle it out. Running them a
close second in Miss Averill’s “hit it
or die trying” tennis class are Jean
Pierce and Margaret Carter.
So we see that tennis is holding
it’s own here at Salem. If you want
to learn to play come on down after
lunch—lone B. w.ould love to teach
you. I overhead her mumbling “add,
seconds, duce, love games . . . ”.
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(Cont. from page one)
and says that he is as much' in
terest in learning from his audiences
what American is thinking as in tell
ing them what America is reading.
But in more ways than one Ed
ward Weeks has gone out and learn
ed for himself about how America
lives. One summer vacation during
his college days, he worked as a
harvest hand in, the Kansas wheat
fields and has twice earned his way
across the Atlantic Ocean as a sea
man.
Edward Weeks is'married and a
father and makes his home on Chest
nut Street in Boston. He plays golf
and pool with equal gusto, but
spends most of his time in and out
of his office reading and reading—
1,0 the tune of an estimated 20,000,-
000 words a year. “The Atlantic”
alone receives some 40,000 manu
scripts and books annually.
Out of the stress and strain of
the present, the difficult national as
well as international problems, will
come, Edward Weeks believes, a
definite and perhaps brilliant up
surge in American writing.
Just at present he is particularly
interested in discovering a new
American humorist.
“Humor used to be an American
characteristic,” he says, "but some
thing has happened to us these past
ten years, for t,oday there certainly
is not enough of it to go around.
I have been on the search for a
new American humorist, someone
who by making us laugh at ourselves
will give us a refreshment we can’t
otherwise possess. Someone wh,o will
do for our generation what Artemus
Ward, Mark Twain, Mr. Dooley and
Will Rogers did for theirs.”
Mr. Weeks also reports a short
age of good short story writers and
urges that young writers try to get
a little more “sweetness and light”
into what they write. Not that he
objects to stories about the outcast
and the downtrodden when they
are handled skillfully and realistic
ally, but so many of the stories of
horror and violence are not realistic
at all and show that the authors do
not know or care very deeply about
the characters they portray, he
states.
Poetry, on the other hand, he
finds .on the increase—“poetry,” he
says, ‘ ‘ which is clearer and more
meaningful.”
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