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...yard dash--Charles C. Smith '41; Robert W. M. P. Gammons...
...yard dash--Torbert H. Macdonald '40; James Rothschild...
Tall, curly-haired John Mason Brown (Post) is, at 38, the youngest of the newspaper critics. Probably the ablest all-round of the lot, he combines journalistic dash ("Most Hamlets look like the original interior decorator") with analytical skill. With Anderson, he has the highest critical boiling point; brought in a plausible minority report on Abe Lincoln in Illinois. He lectures far & wide, has led Variety's boxscore for best-guessing hits and flops five times in the last nine years...
...enemies. Führer Hitler had massed German soldiers in the eastern tip of his new protectorate of Slovakia, only 75 miles from the Rumanian frontier. If Rumania was physically to fall to Germany (after Hungary had also fallen), other jackal nations might have a chance to dash in and grab a few mouthfuls as they did twice in Czecho-Slovakia. The Hungarian Army lined up 300,000 men on the Rumanian border. Even little Bulgaria, to the south, mobilized...
Inevitable, apparently, to all such novels is the dash of Latin melodrama at the end. But the book is sharply written, sympathetic without being sentimental; and in conviction, if not in humor, it gains more than it suffers by comparison with Steinbeck's Tortilla Flat, its West Coast counterpart...