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...student drinking was not general, three who thought it was, one who thought it was increasing. Declared Dr. Poling: "There is less drinking among young people than at any time in the past eight years. Let us stop slandering our sons and daughters! . . . Neither in Washington Square nor in 42nd Street nor in Hell's Kitchen are there as many places where liquor is sold as before Prohibition...
...Great American Novel has never been written, perhaps never will be. But Author Dos Passos has made a bold bid for it. Certainly no U. S. novel has ever been more comprehensive than The 42nd Parallel, none has ever given a broader, more sweeping view of the whole country. At the opposite pole from Author Thornton Niven Wilder (TIME, Feb. 24) who writes neat, classical tales of other lands. Author Dos Passos unwinds a rapid, impressionistic, five-reel cinema of his own U. S., from 1900 to the War. Of more ambitious scope tha Cineman David Wark Griffith...
...most important books on the Harper list will be published on February 19th: "The 42nd Parallel", the first novel in three years by John Dos Passos...
...project covers almost every square mile of arid area in Turkestan down to the Afghanistan boundary and northward to the 42nd parallel, which is at the mouth of the Amudaria River, and includes the great plains over which Tamerlane, Alex ander the Great and other warriors marched their conquering but weary hordes...
...Chanin Building at 42nd and Lexington, Manhattan. It has 20 elevators, each with a different interior and all paneled with imported woods used ordinarily in jewel boxes and violins...