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Cronin is a first-rate literary craftsman with an honest love of simple humanity and a sure feel for trends. Result: during the threnodic '30s he wrote best-selling proletarian novels so much better than the professional proletarians that people did not realize what they were. Critic Robert Forsythe had to apologize before recommending The Stars Look Down to readers of the Communist New Masses. But the art of trending, like bronco-busting, lies in knowing when to fall off and catch another horse. The Keys of the Kingdom finds Author Cronin firmly riding a trend that promises...
...Widely criticized is the appointment of leading industrialists to Government control boards. A cause cèlèbre is the case of Viscount Wolmer, Government Director of Cement, who also draws a $20,000 salary from the cement makers' federation. Lord Wolmer's leading critic has been the Rt. Rev. Ernest Barnes, famed Bishop of Birmingham, who some months ago lost a ?1,600 libel suit over remarks he made about the "cement ring." Last week the unrepentant Bishop stood up in the House of Lords to ask, "Ought a Government officer, sitting in a Government building...
Married. Poet-Critic William Rose Benet, 55, onetime husband of the late Poet Elinor Wylie; and Marjorie Flack, 43, children's writer and illustrator; he, for the fourth time; in Newtown, Conn. His marriage to Actress Lora Baxter ended in divorce...
...poet, a critic, a tireless student of short fiction who never wrote a short story himself, O'Brien died in February, aged 50, at his home in Buckinghamshire, England. Thus The Best Short Stories, 1941 is his last anthology. The series will continue under the editorship of Martha Foley, co-editor (with Husband Whit Burnett) of Story, which was long a favorite hunting ground of O'Brien's for new writers and new ideas of short story technique...
Replying to criticisms that during six months the British neither mined nor fortified Crete's airfields against German attack, Prime Minister Churchill said: "I could give answers to those questions, but I do not propose to discuss tactics here." Tart and testy, he suggested that any critic whose mind was focused on the small island of Crete was being very small-minded indeed. Crete, he declared, was "only one part of an important and complicated campaign being fought in the Middle East. To select one particular sector of our widely extended front for Parliamentary debate is a partial, lopsided...