Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Persons who skimmed through the Boston despatch containing these words and decided that any man who uttered them must be a living image of Author Sinclair Lewis' fictional creature, The Man Who Knew Coolidge (TIME, April 23), were both unfair and inattentive. The Lewis creature's name was Lowell Schmaltz. The real Boston man to whom the above remarks were credited was Edward F. Horrigan, a Massachusetts fire investigator...
Thornton Niven Wilder, an instructor at Lawrenceville School & author of The Bridge of San Luis Rey, a best-selling book about people in Peru, and a book of which first edition copies have sold at $50, was interviewed by a young reporter. He said: ". . . Collecting first editions is not a good habit to get into. It is a minor indication of an age that is losing the essential approach to books. ... I have never set foot in Peru...
...Author Johnston shows no trace of youthfulness in the grim story she tells with relentless force, compassion, and restraint...
SERVICE RECORD BY AN ARTILLERYMAN -L. V. Jacks-Scribners ($2). From a position as impersonal as an historian's account of the battle of Crécy, Author Jacks describes his War experiences. "Major Thompson dismounted and walked back and forth among the cannon. ... He replied that the shot was not made that would kill him. ..." Scenes of hideousness are frequent, gallantry omnipresent. A cool sense of the pictorial dominates a style metaphorically fine (if you think airplanes "steam by"). Non-belligerents will enjoy an atmosphere of accuracy (if you think English soldiers wear "mufti"). The suggestion of continual...
RANK AND FILE-Theodore Roosevelt -Scribners ($2.50). Author-Politician Roosevelt has one excuse for his compendium of two well-known hero sagas: an attempt is vaguely made to impress the reader with the fact that a nation expresses itself fully only in war time...