Word: book-of-the-month
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...might have the effect of widening the split between Army, Church and Falange. As long as the three institutions support Franco, the Spanish people (80% of whom Hughes marks down as opposing the regime) has little chance of liberation. Hughes's first book, The Church and the Liberal Society, was a book-of-the-month choice of the Catholic Book Club; Hughes is now a TIME correspondent in Rome. He spent four wartime years as press attaché of the U.S. Embassy in Madrid. He thinks that economic sanctions by the Western powers, and not "international sermons," will bring...
Friendship's End. Things finally began to look up two years ago. The Book-of-the-Month Club offered to sponsor the show, moved it to Manhattan's WQXR. Mutual aired it for a while, and a few transcriptions were sent out to small stations...
This temperate report on intemperate postwar Russia is a Book-of-the-Month Club choice for May (several chapters have already appeared in Harper's magazine). It will be welcomed by readers who are not likely to be taken in by idolaters, and also by those who are put off by embittered Communist backsliders...
...rains in the Salinas valley country of California. The setting, familiar to Steinbeck readers, comes out fresh and fragrant in Steinbeck's prose. A few of the characters are fragrant too, but his story, a sort of Grand Hotel in a bus, is cunning and cheap. The Book-of-the-Month Club, though making the book its March choice, has warned its readers: "Mr. Steinbeck . . . may write too freely for the taste of some readers, particularly parents who may have teen-age children...
...Only other Book-of-the-Month selection from a U.S. university press: Wa-Kon-tah (Oklahoma), co-choice for November 1939. The Literary Guild has never picked a university press book. * Not to be confused with Iowa Poet Paul Engle (American Song, West of Midnight...