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...make his paper boom, German journalism was close to the rocks. Chiefly to blame, Minister of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment Dr. Paul Josef Goebbels, who censors and blights the Fatherland's news, last week berated German editors because "the published word no longer has its former effect. The reader has become a mule. . . . There has now reappeared the old 'vocal newspaper,' the passing of news from mouth to mouth. The reader is not responsible: the newspapers are responsible! They are losing ground because they satisfy only 40% of the readers' curiosity instead...
...associates. In 1928 United Drug merged with huge Drug, Inc. to dominate the drug trade of the world. In the crash that soon followed Liggett lost his retail chain stores. Author Merwin does not divulge the size or state of Liggett's present fortune, but he leaves the reader feeling comfortably reassured that his hero's virtue has brought not only its own reward but a few extra dividends as well. Author Merwin reveals few intimate details of the inner Liggett, but those few shed their little beams. In his salad days Liggett once took a girl...
Five years ago Claire Spencer caught many a U. S. reader's eye with her first novel, a black-avised melodrama called Gallows' Orchard. Because its youthful angularities seemed to hint of power in its not-yet-matured bone, critics reserved judgment, hoped to see its promise performed in Author Spencer's second book. Last week, after reading The Island, they wrote off Author Spencer as a case of arrested artistic development...
...LEWIS is a young English poet whose name is always mentioned nowadays with those of Spender and Auden, and to understand his poetry and in fact the aims of the group with which he is associated, the reader ought to turn to the manifesto, "A Hope for Poetry," published separately in England, but reprinted here together with the longish works, "Transitional Poem," "From Feathers to Iron," and "The Magnetic Mountain." The last is easily the best and it illustrates most nicely the sort of poetry which one may reasonably expect hereafter from Mr. Day Lewis. It is intellectual poetry...
...suggests while speaking of the Communist movement in contemporary letters, to a passing fashion, since the literary world has its whirligig of fashion, even as the world of dress. He is good in his criticism of his associates, and, by implications, of himself, too, so that the reader is not unduly sanguine who expects him to fulfill the promise of this present volume in later years when Time shall have made Mr. Day Lewis an even stronger poet than...