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...announced that one of them, frail M. I. T. man John Henry Walthall, had developed a new process for extracting alumina (raw material of aluminum) from common clay, which abounds in TVAland. Other TVA discoveries include methods for making a cork insulation substitute out of vermiculite (a mica-like rock), for deriving magnesium from olivine, plastics from cottonseed hulls...
...that he became the first U. S. writer to leave two complete posthumous novels in the hands of his publisher. They were two of the longest one-volume novels (some 700 pages apiece) ever written -twin parts of a total autobiographical recall. First part was The Web and the Rock (1939). Second part was You Can't Go Home Again, published this week...
Both novels are about George Webber, a bulky, simian creature with knee-length dangling arms and a Webster-length vocabulary. In The Web and the Rock, George left his home town, Libya Hill, Old Catawba (North Carolina), to become a famous writer in Manhattan. Much of The Web and the Rock was taken up with the fits & starts and impassioned prose of a love affair between would-be Writer George and wealthy, married, Jewish Scene Designer Esther Jack. When love threatened to supersede writing, George fled to Europe. You Can't Go Home Again resumes this unsatisfactory affair after...
Admirers of Thomas Wolfe (their number is legion and their literary tempers are short) may hail You Can't Go Home Again as the culminating Wolfe masterpiece. To others it may seem like rereading The Web and the Rock. There is the same mass and specific gravity of wordage. There is the same tidal flux and reflux of language. There is Wolfe's constant continental sense of the U. S., which sometimes turns into a Whitmanic bill of particulars. There are the same major characters, all from life, and the same unreality surrounding them. There are the same...
Through the Strait of Gibraltar one day last week, under the very muzzles of the British guns that guard the Rock, slid a flotilla of six fast warships flying the French flag. They were headed for the Atlantic. Although Marshal Pétain's Vichy Government has severed relations with Britain, and a British fleet in Oran Bay attacked and destroyed part of a French squadron last July, no gun fired on these French warships. They steamed confidently by Britain's scowling fortress, and sped...