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Vickers appropriated a Krupp invention, a special fuse for hand grenades. After the War Krupp sued Vickers in the English courts for violation of patent rights, asked 123,000,000 shillings (a shilling a fuse) damages. Vickers settled out of court, paid Krupp in Vickers stock. When the bewildered reader asks, "How can such things be?" Attorneys Engelbrecht, Hanighen & Seldes point out that these sowers of dragons' teeth are mighty members of their countries' councils, control big newspapers and bigger banks; that their governments, which cannot afford to run state-owned arms industries, cannot afford to let their...
...lived in the 18th Century, Poet Stephen Vincent Benét would almost certainly not have written in verse. Many a reader of his Pulitzer-Prizewinning poem, John Brown's Body, had an uneasy feeling that it was about time "poetry" was redefined. But many a reader of James Shore's Daughter will wish that Poet Benét had not taken a vacation in prose. What Lewis Mumford (see below) would call "fatally readable," James Shore's Daughter has the faint odor of a Richard Harding Davis novel that has survived a little too long. Those...
...movements is matched by the faculty, exhibited here and elsewhere in the issue, of invoking the dead from the living. We are swung headily amoung the ghosts of invoking the dead from the living we have all been passing. From the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald," "carrying to the reader's mind the awful authority of temperance tracts," we leap to the "historic publication of 'Anthony Adverse'." There is a feeling of being on hand at an excavation of the present. In a review of Smith, Mr. Cabell is swiftly and neatly disposed of; "at this date no one whom...
...Sodrov,'' said he in a strong Russian accent. Prosecuting Attorney Cerede, an ardent reader of illustrated papers, looked at him severely...
...mixed up in an attempted murder, and ended as the unwilling locum tenens of a lunatic asylum. Daring Author Céline makes Bardamu tell his story himself, lets him show himself a cowardly cynic, timeserver, hypocrite, liar, tacitly defies the onlooker to cast the first stone. Many a reader will find nothing handy to throw. Shocking to the Goncourt Academicians mainly for stylistic reasons (says Defender Daudet: ''It is written in Parisian colloquial speech, a very special language, superficially lazy yet fundamentally exact"). Journey to the End of the Night will shock many a U.S. reader...