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The Great American Novel has not yet been written. Herman Melville did several chapters of it, Walt Whitman some chapter headings, Henry James an appendectiform footnote. Mark Twain roughed out the comic bits, Theodore Dreiser made a prehistoric-skeleton outline, Sinclair Lewis, John Dos Passos, Ernest Hemingway all contributed suggestions...
Thereupon he recommended giving the Recovery Act another two years of life from the date of its expiration, June 16 (TIME, Feb. 25). Like his reasons for renewal, his recommendations for changes in NRA were largely rhetorical generalities. Said he: "Detailed recommendations along the lines which I have indicated have...
C, In Washington, Eleanor Medill ("Cissy") Patterson, fiery editor of Hearst's Herald, gleefully squealed: "I'll give $20 for a copy of the Post!" Like a flash a newshawk was out of the office while his boss waited in a fever of anticipation. The Post, published by...
Not denying Mayor Yoneoka's piratical point,* the prosecution argued that anyhow the Death penalty must be meted out, "because otherwise a bad example would be set," encouraging desperadoes of all races to commit piracy and seek haven at Dairen. This lucid view impressed the Japanese judges. They not...
A scarlet pimpernel is not, as U. S. cinemaddicts may suppose, either a childhood disease or a disgraceful occupation. It is a little wildflower which Sir Percy Blakeney (Leslie Howard), head of a gang of altruistic milords who consider it their duty to rescue French aristocrats imperilled by the Revolution...