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Last February Death came to Archeologist James Leslie Mitchell, at 34. A literary dual personality, Archeologist Mitchell was also Novelist Lewis Grassic Gibbon. An authority on Mayan civilization (The Conquest of the Maya TIME, Feb. 4), he had written a Scottish-dialect trilogy (previously published: Sunset Song, Cloud Howe) and another big novel (to be published in the U. S. next season). Grey Granite, Author Gibbon's posthumous Parthian shaft, was the concluding volume of his trilogy...
Last week out of the black cloud of dust which still hung over drought-stricken Kansas, Governor Alfred Mossman ("Alf") Landon sped to Washington to see about $500,000 worth of free gasoline from FERA to power 200,000 tractors to plough furrows to stop the ravages of Kansas' winds. While he was getting his gasoline he stopped long enough to mention that in May the Republicans of ten Midwestern States were planning to convene and write a platform for a bigger, better, sounder and more liberal G. O. P. Head of the resolutions committee at this meeting would...
Last week the world's only ship to fly the flag of Palestine was in Greek waters on her maiden trip from Haifa to Trieste when the Greek revolution enveloped her like a dark cloud. What chiefly worried the Jewish crew and captain of the 10,000-ton Tel Aviv ("Hill of Spring") was not the revolution, however, but the behavior of a tall, lean-faced man who paced nervously up & down the promenade deck, wandered disconsolately between the kosher kitchen and the ship's synagog. Tel Aviv's owner, President Arnold Bernstein of Palestine Navigation...
Flagpole-painter and steeplejack extraordinary, George B. Drew deliberately expelled a cloud of cigarette smoke from his mouth...
...Author is young (33) but considered by many a critic the most portentous cloud on the French literary horizon. A brilliant writer, he is no worker in enamel. His rare epigrams ("Youth is a religion which, in the long run, a man has always to retract") are the only tricolorations in his style. The world he writes of, in terms of savagery, torture, bloodshed, is too death-ridden to be neat...