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...WORLDS-Lester Cohen-Coviet, Friede...
...children to children still smaller. Critic Edmund Wilson was writing in that classic, if somewhat astringent, mood when last month he offered his skeptical impressions of the U. S. and the U. S. S. R. in Travels in Two Democracies. For most of his long (412 pages) Two Worlds, Lester Cohen also adopts the tired tone of his predecessors, finding little to awaken his enthusiasm, much to depress him in his glimpses of poverty in many lands. Bright exception to his historic pessimism is his excitement about the Soviet Union...
...Lester Cohen was born 34 years ago in Chicago, wrote a novel of department-store life (Sweepings) which became a bestseller, then settled in Hollywood to write for the movies. He says in Two Worlds that after years of this work he set forth "bound for the beauty and wonder of the world, and a better understanding of our troubled, chaotic time." With his wife he went first to France, then to England, where he listened to debates in Parliament about fascism, then to Russia, Turkey, Greece, Palestine, Egypt, Ceylon, India, China, Japan. Since they traveled over conventional paths...
...Henry of A. the Wallace leading and Robert candidates A. for the Taft, 2 William Republican E. Borah Presidential and Alfred nomination M. were Landon (1 3 Eugene Talmadge and Lester J. Dickinson, 4 Theodore Roosevelt Jr., and John W Davis, S Hiram Johnson and Bennett Champ Clark...
State University of New Mexico (Albuquerque) Secretary Robert MacDonald Lester of Carnegie Corporation ................LL.D...