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...Georges Simenon, last heard from in Occupied France, has to his credit the staggering total of approximately 300 novels. Most of them reflect his nonchalant ability to record in short, spare sentences the everyday life of Frenchmen of every class and type. Built up out of thousands of small incidents, Simenon's novels never fail to show a "customary air of slow-motion absent-mindedness." But they were written-usually on his canal boat Ostrogoth)-at rates varying from four days to one month per novel. Says Simenon: "I get up at half-past five; go on deck; start...
...Reader Flynn, who has had plenty of troubles, not read sneers into TIME'S account of them. TIME'S story did not reflect on his professional integrity; it intended to reflect sympathetically on the perils of an actor's life, from which even escape into anonymity of the Army is impossible. (TIME still understands that he is classed 4-F.) Nor did TIME invent the story of a plumber being blown through his cellar door, which came from press dispatches...
Harlan J. Bushfield, 60, South Dakota, a conservative machine politician who once proposed a "National Debt Week" for citizens to reflect on New Deal spending, hoped in 1940 to run for Vice President behind Ohio's Senator Robert A. Taft. As Governor since 1939, hulking Harlan Bushfield has been noted chiefly for his economies...
...Wherever I look," he said, "I see men quarreling in the name of religion -Hindus, Mohammedans, Brahmos, Vaish-navas, and the rest. But they never reflect that He who is called Krishna is also called Siva, and bears the name of the Primal Energy, Jesus, and Allah as well -the same Rama with a thousand names. A lake has several ghats [bathing-places]. At one the Hindus take water in pitchers and call it ' jal' ; at another the Mussulmans take water in leather bags and call it 'pani.' At a third the Christians call...
These two books reflect the fact that U.S. readers have at last caught up with the continental statesmanship of Lincoln's and Johnson's Secretary of State, William H. Seward, who forced the purchase of Alaska ("Seward's Icebox'') amid the catcalls of the isolationists of 1867. The Japanese in the Aleutians and the new global geography have made the U.S. suddenly conscious that Alaska is nearer Seattle (as a plane flies) than Seattle is near Los Angeles...