Word: books
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Heflin, 70 next April, is now at home in Lafayette, Ala., compiling a book of anecdotes. Said he last week: "I, with millions of other peace-loving Americans, deeply regret the death of the Pope...
...white audience of about 50. Communism was her theme. Joe remembers she told how bread and oranges were being cast into the sea by capitalists to hike prices. When the collection was taken up, Joe tossed in 60/. He must have signed something because he soon received a membership book from Kansas City headquarters of the Communist Party, with six 10^ dues stamps affixed and a handbill urging William Zebulon Foster for President. Joe Strecker, who had voted for Al Smith in 1928, was sufficiently impressed to vote for Mr. Foster in 1932. But he paid no more "dues...
...range, like Editor Charles Laflin of the Covert, S. Dak., Advance, he must often take turkeys and fence posts for subscriptions. He is likely to be chosen mayor, basketball referee or blood donor at any moment. He works 60 to 80 hours a week, and rarely reads a book. And above all, he has to watch what he prints. A Rockland, Mass, editor was driven into bankruptcy because he told how a townslady had slipped bottom-first on a patch of freshly tarred pavement and added that she was "ready for feathering" when...
Before a Hollywood pressagent named Russell Birdwell published his first book, I Ring Doorbells, this week, he: 1) polled 2,500 newsmen to help pick its title; 2) wrote 175 department store buyers to watch for it; 3) offered book editors free j photographs of Carole Lombard, Janet Gaynor, et al., simpering: "This is the j most exciting book of the year," etc.; 4) offered radio stations two-minute transcriptions of the same stars making the same kind of remarks; 5) offered orchestras a specially written I Ring Doorbells song. Sample verse...
...herein lies the book's chief weakness. The horrors and brutalities of war are not brought home forcibly enough. In his attempt to show all the intricate workings out of tactical campaigns the author seems to lose his grasp of the whole. He seems to view the conflict as a struggle between armies rather than peoples. Captain Hart does not appreciate the sufferings and hardships of the civilian population which may truly be considered war's greatest tragedy...