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...rounded up: Albert Einstein on atomic-energy control (as told to Raymond Swing); war letters of General George S. Patton Jr.; unpublished love letters of Mark Twain; excerpts from the notebooks of Henry James; part of a new novel by John P. Marquand; articles by George Bernard Shaw, Budd Schulberg, Sumner Welles, Sir Richard Livingstone.* To show off these prizes to better advantage, the Atlantic had freshened up its format, run its first four-color cover and had its type face lifted by topnotch Typographer W. A. Dwiggins...
...HARDER THEY FALL (343 pp.)-Budd Schulberg-Random House...
Gene Tunney, most scholarly of the ex-world heavyweight champs, turned up in the Saturday Review of Literature as a literary critic. Novelist Budd Schulberg's pugilistic The Harder They Fall) wrote Critic Tunney, was "a vulgar book about vulgar people," but "very cleverly written." He read it twice, declared the retired champ: "I did not get the full significance of its gems of wit . . . until the second reading...
...manly art of modified murder, as the late ringsider W. O. McGeehan called it, has supplied Budd Schulberg, 33, with a subject even seamier than the gaudy and greedy Hollywood of his first novel, What Makes Sammy Run? In The Harder They Fall, professional prize fighting is presented as a thoroughly crooked and brutal business. This point of view is entirely tenable, but as the theme of a full-length novel it gets tiresome. All the shocking details that Schulberg desperately dishes up cannot disguise the sophomoric quality of his storytelling, and readers will end up feeling that his book...
Only living U.S. authors to make the grade: John Steinbeck (a reissue of The Grapes of Wrath), Upton Sinclair (the Lanny Budd cycle), Ralph Ingersoll (Top Secret), Elliott Roosevelt (As He saw It), Erskine Caldwell, whose short stories about the seamy side of Southern life will top all other U.S. offerings with a 100,000-copy edition. Said the director of one Moscow publishing house last week: "We didn't see anything else that would interest Soviet readers...