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REPORT TO SAINT PETER (220 pp.)-Hendrik Willem van Loon-Simon & Schuster...
...Little Hendrik was born in Rotterdam in 1882 a few hours after Richard Wagner had finished Parsifal (the events had no bearing on each other, he whimsically explains). After recording this fact the author supplies six successive childhood memories, each followed by a digression in genealogy, i.e., the story of mankind. As achievements in gentle claptrap these sections are all too imitable, as were the sections of Van Loon's previous books which they imitate. Example: "[The ice age] was the period during which the human race went to school, for it was a question of invent or perish...
...Manhattan Opportunity Shop, Inc (operated by the Community Service Society, one of the U.S.'s oldest and largest charities) reported a 25% up in sales despite a 12% drop in donations. And the Actor's Thrift Shop has found a customer for the tuxedo of the late Hendrik van Loon (6 ft. 6 in. tall, 85 in. around): the A.W.V.S. bought it to turn into a woman's suit...
...World. As domestic pressure eases, Jan Smuts shows a sharpening distaste for his country's bread-&-butter politics. More & more Smuts tends to leave affairs at home to his able heir apparent, Hon. Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr. Minister of Finance and Education, and his loyal "Harry Hopkins," Louis Esselen. More & more he tends to see himself in the role he has always cherished: an enlightened, holistic statesman of the Empire and the World. He likes to move at the center of things: he popped up rather unexpectedly at the Cairo Conference last November and met Franklin Roosevelt for the first...
...last week of February and the first [two weeks] of March [were] a peculiarly lethal time for American authors; five of them died. James Boyd, John Thomason, Joseph Lincoln, Irvin Cobb, Hendrik van Loon - that is the list. In the opinion of a good many competent critics, James Boyd was by far the most solidly important of them...