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China had given a foreigner $25 million worth of property and now she wanted it back. Would she get it? In August 1944, a group of grave-faced ministers of state pondered the question with Merchant-Adventurer Bill Hunt, head of William Hunt & Co., boldest American firm in the Far East...
Striving to keep the great weight of fact and action quick, supple and personal, the film's creators hit on a few bold devices. The boldest: substituting for the customary bald-faced narrative prose some passages in blank verse written by Private Harry Brown-and for the customary sports announcer's voice, a far more intelligent Voice of History. Though the verse is generally middling and the BBC-accented Voice of History is a trifle pallid, the innovation is as welcome as it is startling...
...even the best of American writers had fallen so far short of the possibilities of their genius. As he worked on his biographies of Mark Twain and Henry James, finding more & more evidence of the personal tragedies of individual writers, and more & more signs of the faltering of their boldest ventures, Van Wyck Brooks produced studies of intellectual failure which were as terrifying to creative writers as the horror stories...
...50th anniversary of his own graduation. Last week Bowdoin, still one of the nation's top-ranking small colleges, celebrated its 150th anniversary. For 2,160 of its bold alumni there are stars in Bowdoin's World War II service flag; for 31 of the boldest the stars are gold...
...trademark of a good book." Last fortnight Strange Fruit (TIME, March 20), Lillian Smith's controversial novel about Southern racial problems, miscegenation and lynching, joined the long list of Boston's hall-marked books.* A policeman had read some of it and was shocked. "The boldest indecent passages I have ever seen," said Boston's Police Commissioner Thomas F. Sullivan. The disturbing passages, he explained, were shown him by a father who had bought Strange Fruit as a present for his daughter in the WAVES. Said the Rev. Donald Lothrop, a member of the advisory committee...