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...miner who marries the boss's daughter and by hook & crook becomes a boss himself, John Wayne is a thoroughly stereotyped Hollywood heel. Marlene Dietrich, cast as a rough diamond, looks like a phony one. For denouement, Pearl Harbor arrives to engulf all the characters in a spurious blaze of patriotism. Pittsburgh looks more like slag than good wartime metal...
Handling the job in the best Co-coanut Grove tradition, the fire-bugs held a match to the most inflammable of the placards, and then fled the scene while the blaze envelopped the board and charred the entry. Most violent reaction to this bit of sabotage came from the proctor, Frank "the fruit" Newman '42, who quite violently and properly resented the flaming zeal with which they were pressing revenge...
...always this way. With the talent of Eugene O'Neill, Robert Sherwood, S. N. Behrman, Philip Barry, Sidney Howard, Thomas Wolfe, John Mason Brown, and John Dos Passos, Baker was able to blaze a spectacular trail. These names above are no dead listing of the college's contribution to a forgotten art. They signify the great effort that was expended, and then was suddenly curtailed...
...SPORTING BLOOD - Edited by Ellery Queen-Little, Brown ($2.50). An anthology of short detective stories dealing with sports and hobbies, from horse racing (A. Conan Doyle's Silver Blaze) to book collecting (Dorothy L. Sayers' The Dragon's Head). There are 18 other tales by authors old & new, U.S. and English, all good examples of this difficult genre...
...edition has just been published in Rio de Janeiro (it is not yet available in English), contains the first grand polemic produced by a Christian writer in World War II. Many books have surpassed Mein Kampf in reasoning and style; this one matches ts demonic energy with a spiritual blaze of equal force and infinitely greater sanity. The writer: Georges Bernanos, a French Catholic layman known to Americans as the author of a fine novel, Star of Satan (TIME, June 17, 1940), and a furious, eyewitness denunciation of the Fascist "Holy War" in Spain, Les Grands Cimetières Sous...