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Like Dreiser, James T. Farrell writes with his thumbs. His words are blunt tools that he must wield with force and repetition. Some of his dialogues, about nothing in particular, seem interminable. The significance of Ellen Rogers is not in its writing but in the fact that here for the first time Farrell has contracted his view from social to individual conflicts, against the backdrop of a higher social milieu. He has succeeded after a fashion, like a strong but clumsy pugilist who beats down his opponent with 15 rounds of body blows...
...Army, hating the democracies in general and Chiang Kai-shek in particular, is savagely pro-Axis. Feeling the hot breath of time on their necks, pinched seriously by the U.S. blockade, the officers want action. Speaking for the Army last week, blunt Colonel Hayao Mabuchi accused the U.S. and Britain of "a crime against humanity," urged Japan, if diplomacy failed, to break through encirclement "by force." Last week the Army acted by: 1) denying gasoline to all Japanese busses, taxis, private automobiles; 2) setting up a special A.R.P. bureau in the Home Ministry and distributing instructions on how to combat...
Another well-deserved promotion came to William L. Batt, 46, who was Biggers' deputy production director, is now OPM's Materials Director. Batt, a hefty, blunt man with a red face and short pug nose, a powerful off-the-cuff orator, has been booming his head off trying to arouse industry, will now team with Harrison to supply the materials, cut them up into guns, tanks, planes...
...while all this made Chiang Kai-shek beamish with joy, Dan Arnstein's mission was scarcely a flawless triumph. Knowing little, caring nothing about protocol and the sanctity of face in the Orient, at Chungking receptions the hardhitting ex-cabby and his blunt, breezy manner had Occidental diplomats squirming in suspense. Once, when a secretary from the U.S. Embassy inquired fretfully why he had not called on Ambassador Clarence Gauss, only the Chinese guests seemed to enjoy his typical retort: "Why should I?" snapped Arnstein. "I don't know...
While 30% of U.S. newspapers have at one time or another declared openly for a shooting war, U.S. magazines have been more backward. Not even the most interventionist of them has, in so many blunt words, told the U.S. to start firing. Last week one of them...