Word: background
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grease. Proudest man there was Chairman of the Maritime Commission Rear Admiral Emory Scott ("Jerry") Land, under whose supervision United States Lines' big* liner had been constructed. At scoffers he scoffed: "For the dogmatic and somewhat cynical gentlemen who tell us that our country has neither the background nor the aptitude that makes for success in maritime affairs, I have little sympathy. . . . The United States of America has a maritime tradition...
Other novels, with somewhat similar background, have been written by Russian exiles. Not one has become popular. (All the business went to such characteristic Soviet sagas as Sholokhov's And Quiet Flows the Don, Gorky's Bystander...
...John Wesley Hanes, Under Secretary, brooding over the dropping British pound, the effect of a war on U. S. money, the certain crashing raid by foreign security holders on the "thin" market of the New York Stock Exchange. Hanes, a positive, bluff, solid man, oddly inconsistent with the cold background of his Treasury office-icy-eyed portraits of former Secretaries, ancient shiny red-plush drapes, a cool white-marble mantel-arrived every morning last week at 7 a.m. (noon in London) to telephone his boss, Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. in Finland, Sweden, Norway; to telephone the men in London...
Small Beer, an aptly titled profusely illustrated collection of ten stories and sketches, is authentic Bemelmans brew. From his hotel background (Bemelmans once managed a small swanky restaurant on Manhattan's upper East side) comes the story of Gabriel, the perfect maitre d'hotel, who revealed his true genius at the super-swanky birthday party for Mrs. George Washington Kelly, the story of another maitre whose phobia was The Blue Danube. Among minor classics of travel literature is Bemelmans' account of a small island off the coast of France, where Madame Clamart, because of an unfortunate experience...
CASUAL SLAUGHTERS-Virginia Hanson -Crime Club ($2). Kay Cornish and Major Adam Drew who collabored in Death Walks the Post, uncover an old mystery when they investigate two murders at Fort Michigan. Authentic army-post background, bright dialogue...