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...says thanks, too, wonders if Reader Quails would mind if he gave her $1 to the Children's Crusade fund. He is 13 year-old Eugene Lewis of the Colored Orphan Asylum in the Bronx. One of the brightest of the Asylum's 170 orphans, Eugene is a baseball player and trackman, stars in all the school plays...
...Reader Smith is entitled to believe his grandfather Joseph Smith. Many others believe Brigham Young, who declared when Mormon polygamy was openly proclaimed at Salt Lake City that Joseph Smith had 27 secret wives besides Emma. Critic Bernard DeVoto (son of a Notre Dame mathematician, a Mormon mother) admitted that Joseph Smith had only five "official" children by his "official" wife Emma...
...closing chapter, The Empire Will Not Die, cool, hardheaded Albert Viton turns his back on the rest of his book, begins to comfort himself and the reader with such emotional catch-phrases as "this amazing little island"; to deliver such debatable statements as "Few countries can boast as high a type of manhood as that produced by the public schools of England"; to remark, "The septuagenarian Neville Chamberlain is symbolic of the virility of the English people"; and to snort "To say that war exhausts is as much nonsense as that exercise weakens." After his long persuasions that night must...
...this week one did. The First to Awaken is Granville Hicks's first considerable work of fiction. It would seem to indicate that when Writer Hicks resigned from the Communist Party last autumn he began to live again. Nicely, almost winningly written, in a sort of First Reader style, and full of sunny, skillful little pen drawings by Collaborator Richard Bennett, the book should fascinate those readers who would just as soon skip the next 100 years if the next 100 years are going to be anything like...
Johnson virtually told a serialized story of their adventures for 25 years in the South Seas, Africa, Borneo. But because Osa Johnson also makes a companionate idyl of their life together, many a reader will agree that their adventures are worth telling twice...