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President Thomas H. Beck announced that he had in the works a mass-circulation "international magazine," was talking it up with prospective "associate publishers" abroad. It would look like Collier's, would be edited...
...Beck had already taken one step to make sure that the new magazine would travel freely. Said he: it will not "treat with political subjects...
Recorded sound, Ozneedle Beck...
...quarry of monstrous guilt. A half-century ago, on a vacation, he crossed Lake Constance, and remembers that the Swiss shore seemed like a part of the great world, as his home was not. There was a taint (he thinks now) in that feeling; and in Lübeck, his home, more than a taint...
...beck youth Mann (now 70) recalls a Germany which, while pretending to universalism, actually lived in "arrogant provincialism . . . the modern nationalistic form, of the old German world-seclusiveness and melancholy world-unfitness . . . cosmopolitanism in a nightcap...