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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Fortnight ago the "Big Four Banks" of Italy were regrouped by a merger under the aegis of the Dictator into the "Big Three Banks" (TIME, Feb. 24). Perhaps by coincidence, but certainly as a result of Italian and Bulgarian minds again working along parallel lines, a similar merger followed last week in Sofia...
...42x0 PARALLEL-John Dos Passes -Harper...
...Great American Novel has never been written, perhaps never will be. But Author Dos Passos has made a bold bid for it. Certainly no U. S. novel has ever been more comprehensive than The 42nd Parallel, none has ever given a broader, more sweeping view of the whole country. At the opposite pole from Author Thornton Niven Wilder (TIME, Feb. 24) who writes neat, classical tales of other lands. Author Dos Passos unwinds a rapid, impressionistic, five-reel cinema of his own U. S., from 1900 to the War. Of more ambitious scope tha Cineman David Wark Griffith...
...Plan is ingenious, effective. Three parallel streams of action run through the book, appear in turn, like plaits in a braid:1) Newsreel, 2) The Camera's Eye, 3) the story of one of the five main characters. The Newsreel is a cleverly mixed medley of headlines, scraps of news stories, popular songs. Like clocks striking the hour, each newsreel sets the time; also serves as caption. The Camera's Eye, brief scraps of autobiographical reminiscence, picks out quick scenes, quickly vanished, from these 17 years. The main story tells the lives of five people whose lives gradually...
...French possessions, unless NYRBA carries mail for Aeropostale and gives the latter access to its airports. The U. S. State Department last week was chaffering with the French government on this matter. Watching the situation was not only NYRBA and Aeropostale, but also the German Condor Line which also parallels much of the Aeropostale route, and Pan American Airways which intends to parallel NYRBA all the way to Buenos Aires?unless the Aviation Corp. of the Americas, which owns Pan American, buys control of NYRBA and so ends U. S. competition in the region. Another watcher of the fray...