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Frank King last week left Walt & Phyllis debating whether or not to "take on such a responsibility." But no reader who knew his comic strips expected for an instant that the baby would wind up in an orphanage. Also, since "Anguished Mother" stuck to the neuter gender in referring to "it," all odds pointed to a foster-sister for Skeezix & Corky...
...third novel in a series of four this latest work from the pen of Vardis Fisher is a noteworthy bit of fiction. It is not startling but intensely alive and vivid in its descriptive passages. A morbid and depressing atmosphere pervades the pages and often the effect upon the reader is a disagreeable one. It is due in part to the subject matter and in part to the author's treatment which is never light, gay, or whimsical. Always his style is heavily laden with emotionalism and morbidity...
...technician in the upper realms of economic theory." Indeed, he believes his value to businessmen derives from the fact that "he lives and works in the earthly gardens." And in Letter No. 25 he asks that his conclusions and suggestions be challenged, leaving two blank pages for the reader's notes. Probably he will be challenged most frequently not on his conclusions but on his use of the word "inflation." What he has largely in mind is what heretofore has always been politely, if inaccurately, referred to as a "boom." Such a "boom" may be of unprecedented proportions...
...every reader of the Hearst press knows that Bolsheviks have beards, and carry bombs in their Left hands. How have these gentlemen managed so long to keep their true character hidden while teaching Communism to American youth...
...Cahill's essay on American sculpture is not so full as one would wish, and it leaves the reader with the feeling that Mr. Cahill is too much of an eclectic in his tastes, that he is too anxious to hear all sides. Hence, at the end notably, and in many other places elsewhere, he seems to be merely cataloging names--the sonorous cognomens of Abastonia St. Leger Eberle, Minna Harkaway, and Renee Prahar are included in the head-roll of those women sculptors who "have done good work"; the names of the Bright Young Men are also quite...