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...Lardner, Sinclair Lewis, H. L. Mencken, Dorothy Parker, Evelyn Scott, Edith Wharton, Glenway Wescott, Thornton Wilder. Readers may raise puzzled eyebrows at lesser-known names: Carl Becker, Albert Halper, Eleanor Rowland Wembridge. Nowhere to be found are such names as Upton Sinclair, Conrad Allen, Hervey Allen, Louis Bromfield, Walter Lippmann, T. S. Stribling. Looking back on his collection Anthologist Van Doren proudly says: "American literature has grown up. It deals with all the topics that literature deals with anywhere...
Recommendations, This week the Federal Radio Commission is absorbed into the new Federal Communications Commission whose seven members (four Democrats, three Republicans) the President is about to appoint. Pleading for "editorial discretion" among the new appointees, Pundit Walter Lippmann. who works for Mr. Reid's Herald Tribune but does not always agree with him or it, earnestly recommended to the President : "The best commissioners would be men of the kind qualified to be head of a popular university or editor of an independent newspaper. Such men can be found. But they are not likely to be found among...
...need for well-balanced programs, "pull," and the seeming necessity of a pageant of notables, are the four elements which have undermined the impartial grounds on which these awards are made. There are always the easy choices such as Douglas, Cross, and Shapley last year, and probably Lowell, Lippmann, and Hillyer this year, but after these selections the other considerations seem to reign supreme. The usual call for diplomats last year resulted in the choice of the French Ambassador, undoubtedly a distinguished man, but his chances for distinction in this country had begun just a few weeks previously. The requirement...
...things about which he, a Republican, grows publicly passionate is democracy, "the only form of government which respects personality and which a self-respecting people will bear." He does not know which way U. S. democracy is going, hopes it is in the direction of Walter Lippmann's "free collectivism," with a strong central government checking and balancing private business for the common good. But he is profoundly convinced that government needs better brains. He has seen politics from the inside and has Ions, ago lost the oldtime reformer's faith in good intentions. Says Harold Willis Dodds...
...CHINESE TESTAMENT: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF TAN SHIH-HUA AS TOLD TO S. TRETIAKOV-Simon & Schuster ($3). Russian-ghosted autobiography of a Chinese intellectual, unsensational, indigenous. THE METHOD OF FREEDOM-Walter Lippmann-Macmillan ($1.50). Lectures delivered at Harvard last month by a noted public-pulse-finder. DREAM AND ACTION-Leonard Bacon- Harper ($2). Narrative poem based on the life of the late great Poet-to-end-Poets Arthur Rimbaud, with a translation of the famed Bateau Ivre. THE PROVINCIAL LADY IN AMERICA- E. M. Delafield-Harper ($2). Author Delafield's famed Provincial Lady visits the U. S., keeps her ironic...