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"Encore, Erskine"

John Erskine, professor of English at Columbia University, last year startled his pupils. Smiling gently behind his dignified professorial mask, he published an intimate, provocative, highly entertaining novel which immediately became a bestseller, The Private Life of Helen of Troy, (TIME, Nov. 23, BOOKS).

Last week Professor John Erskine startled Columbia again. It was a hot night on Morningside Heights. The Columbia Gymnasium was packed by people who had come not only to hear Professor Walter Henry Hall lead his symphony orchestra through Beethoven's overture to "Egmont" and Mendelssohn's "Hebrides" overture,...

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