Word: authorative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...idea of Ken apparently savored too much of historical study, and not enough of gumshoeing to suit Messrs. Smart & Gingrich. So he, virtually his entire staff and all their works were scrapped. To take Jay Allen's place came another onetime Tribune correspondent, George Seldes, iconoclastic author of You Can't Print That! and Sawdust Caesar. But another snag turned up. Prospective advertisers balked at taking space in what they regarded as a pinko magazine. Ken became anti-communist as well as antifascist, some of its bright young liberal contributors were alienated and George Seldes, while retained...
...Author. Only son of a prominent New Jersey lawyer and politician, Edmund Wilson has had a more varied career than most critics. He served in the Intelligence Service during the War, was a reporter on the New York Sun, managing editor of Vanity Fair, an editor of the New Republic for eight years, where he alternated his scholarly essays with firsthand accounts of strikes and political conventions. Absentminded, round-faced, stuttering slightly when animated, Wilson is a conscientious, molelike conversationalist. He sometimes surprises people by popping up from a topic they thought had been abandoned, picking up the conversation precisely...
...boys do are no more absurd than the things men do, especially in love & war. With the polished simplicity of a parable, the frugal neatness of good homespun, and a cast of eager, fresh child actors, Generals Without Buttons retells in cinema the gently satirical story that young French Author Louis Pergaud told in La Guerre des Boutons, shortly before he went to his death at Verdun...
...STORY or RECONSTRUCTION-Robert Selph Henry - Bobbs-Merrill ($5). Monumental, 633-page sequel to Author Henry's monumental Story of the Confederacy, restoring life and order to the drabbest, most fiercely confused period in U. S. history...
...ears poems of unusual intensity, sponsored by English Anthologist Michael Roberts (The Faber Book of Modern Verse). Poet Eberhart is a young Minnesotan who graduated from Dartmouth in 1926, bummed around the world to St. John's College, Cambridge, now teaches English at St. Mark's School. Author of at least one unforgettable poem (The Groundhog), Poet Eberhart is one of the rarest human types known-a genuine ham poet...