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...Kiss Tomorrow Good-Bye is superior to both Cain and Hemingway...
Only Senators Harry Cain of Washington and Glen Taylor of Idaho voted against it. Said Cain: "We're trying to do too much-too fast." Cried Taylor, running mate to Henry Wallace on the third party ticket: "When Wallace is elected President, we can reach an agreement with Russia and call off this whole armaments program...
Literary Caveman Horace McCoy has driven to an absurd extreme the hardboiled, feel-my-muscles style of James Cain and Dashiell Hammett, and, to add cultural tone, has dipped into the bowely bathos of the wasn't-Bix-wonderful, oh-blow-that-beautiful-horn school. The result is a gutter-minded, gutter-tongued shocker of alley-cat sex, sadism and unmourned murders-relieved only by odes to Satchmo's and Muggsy's horn blowing...
...added up the educational achievements of its 41,682 entries. Conclusion: a man who went to a small college (enrollment below 300) is nearly four times as likely to make Who's Who as a man who went to a big one. In a preface, Novelist James M. Cain, a small-college man himself, thought he knew why. Who's Who had originally confined itself chiefly to "obscure clerics, do-gooders and professors." That policy was, he said, the way to win "the confidence of intellectuals...
...Senate Banking and Currency subcommittee, headed by Washington's Harry P. Cain, produced the pale shadow of a "rent-control" bill which would decontrol all rooming houses, and all cities with more than 1% vacancies, and authorize landlords and tenants to enter into leases at any figure agreeable to both. The full committee took one look and hustled the monstrosity out of sight until...