Tag Archives: The Arts

  • Arnold Gingrich circa 1938
    Bentley Historical Library

    Letters to the Editor

    How "a very good letter" to Ernest Hemingway, archived at U-M, resulted in the famed writer contributing regularly to Esquire magazine and developing a friendship with the magazine's editor, Arnold Gingrich.

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  • Michigan Today

    Do you believe in miracles? Valentine Davies did.

    Midway through World War II, U-M alumnus Valentine Davies got the idea for Miracle on 34th Street, which has become one of the longest-lived and most-loved specimens of Christmas cinema.

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