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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Author Heriat got his U. S. material when Actor Charles Boyer called him to Hollywood as historical supervisor of Conquest. Himself an actor on the Paris stage and for various European movie companies, Heriat prefers a suede zipper jacket to a uniform, has lately been transferred from the Goncourt subway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Goncourt | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

In October the fourth annual New Directions anthology came out with its usual preface by its rich (steel), shrewd 25-year-old editor, James Laughlin IV, who puts it together in a remodeled barn on his uncle's Connecticut estate. "We are drifting into an era of journalese," warned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Talking & Doing | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Copiously illustrated with archaic, mostly unheard-of local faces, published by a home press, dealing minutely with matters which once excited a town or county, at most, a State, these 500 pages might easily have been of an interest equally local. But they are, for those very reasons and some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Thumbprint of the South | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

For Josephus Daniels speaks his long piece honestly and guilelessly in the scrawny indigenous jargon of his trade in his time, and his naivete serves to reveal truths subtler than he suspects. A man who can pay tribute to his wife as "the best helpmeet with which man was ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Thumbprint of the South | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Tar Heel Editor is not quite the complete Southern landscape its author, in his preface, intends; it is a strictly middle-class picture, gets the rest by implication only. But within these limits it is an extraordinary and valuable record; above all, a readable one. With no pretension to literary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Thumbprint of the South | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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