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...news trickled in in driblets: a radio flash, an A.P. bulletin, a telephone call from Wisconsin. Right from the first it was bad, incredibly, disastrously bad. When the reports from only 50 out of more than 3,000 precincts were in, Wendell Willkie said: "Well, that looks like it. We said it would be all or nothing, and it looks like nothing." Somebody suggested that 50 precincts weren't very many. But Willkie only smiled and shook his head...
...strength of Hervey Allen's fiction is in its pageantry, the broad sweep of forest, river and mountains, with details piled on in careless abundance, and with sudden spirited scenes of violence lighting up in dividual characters with a brief intense flash. Often the situations are operatic, with the posturings and awkwardnesses of opera. But at moments they give way to a clarity of scene and character vivid as one of the Indian villages Captain Jack's paleface braves come upon suddenly in the woods. The total effect is epic and dis orderly. But so was the frontier...
...bride-tall, graceful Princess Alexandra of Greece-arrived first: a flash of silken hose under a mink coat. Twenty minutes later came the bridegroom-slim, impulsive King Peter of Yugoslavia, in the light blue uniform of his air force. Other limousines brought the witnesses: Britain's George VI, the bridegroom's godfather, and Greece's George II, the bride's uncle. Among the guests: Britain's Queen Elizabeth, Norway's King Haakon, Holland's Queen Wilhelmina...
...encyclopedia. As a report of military intelligence, with its microscopic account of the war against Conselheiro, it makes U.S. studies of battles in the Civil War seem almost superficial. Through its long expositions of climate, plant life, race, the social character of the backlands, extraordinarily vivid scenes flash at the reader. Rebellion in the Backlands did what Euclides da Cunha wanted it to do. It saved the story of Conselheiro from being buried with his corpse, chastened Brazilian militarists, and helped unify Brazil. But it queered its author with the army, and on Aug. 15, 1909, aged 43, Da Cunha...
...sequence on the long search for radium in the poor woodshed laboratory of the Curies is so well done that it almost makes the spectator tired. The search progresses until the search seems fruitless and then in a flash they realize their triumph. The triumph may seem anti-climactic but this is a story which must be understood in its wider context of radium's benefits to mankind...