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Postal inspectors took over the letters, hid the rest of their contents under the old rule of sanctity of the mail. Now would begin a probably futile search for the heirs who were rightful owners of the letters and their stamps, some of which might now be worth more than...
...More stimulating, when it was not making calf's-eyes at bathos, was Edward Dahlberg's violent Do These Bones Live ($3). Van Wyck Brooks (The Opinions of Oliver Allston; $3) was the year's prime example of one who, in the frenzy of his search for saving values, leaped before he looked, with both hands clamped to his eyes. His yoking of "optimistic" Thomas Mann and Whittier as "primary" artists, and his belittling with "self-interest" of such men as Joyce. Eliot and Proust, left serious readers sad and alarmed. Edmund Wilson's The Wound...
...escarpment is strewn with broken, burning vehicles, overturned tanks, the guts of trucks, smashed guns, upended smoldering airplanes. Wounded and lost men sort themselves out, groping for water or food, staggering, like drunks, in search of ambulances...
...that types for a show about the Government could be found in the Government itself, Morgan relied heavily on well-cast amateurs. Of the 200 actors and actresses who are now on call for Report to the Nation, two-thirds are daytime Government employes. Among them Producer Morgan, in search of a regional accent, can be fairly sure to find the real McCoy...
...evidence. The only trick to the Eagles' attack was the continued use of the man in motion. On two plays out of three, one of the halfbacks from the Heights crossed behind the center before the ball was snapped, and headed for the sidelines as if in search of the water pail...