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...long, earnest, semiphilosophic reminiscence of foreign correspondents, with such works as Vincent Sheean's Personal History, Walter Duranty's I Write as I Please and Negley Farson's The Way of a Transgressor reaching a best-selling popularity. Now the trend seems to be toward candid memoirs by international ladies of fashion who, after long and hectic careers, found much unhappiness with many husbands in many different countries. The first and most scandalous of these books was Elizabeth Drexel Lehr's "King Lehr" and the Gilded Age, followed by The Countess from Iowa, Mabel Dodge Luhan...
From Paris last week astute Editor Charles Grey of Britain's candid weekly The Aeroplane reported after visiting French aircraft plants: "Every factory in France has for several years past turned into what is called a cellule of some sort of Communist organization about which few people know anything. The head of the factory knows of the cellule in his own factory and he knows who is the Chef de cellule. But he never knows what is the organization to which his Chef de cellule reports or which issues orders to the Chef...
...used the catalogs as the basis for a short, episodic bit of authentic Americana, detailing what led to or what followed some 30 purchases j of articles in them. A thin thread of narrative holds the episodes of Catalogue together, but most of the book is given over to candid, unlovely but often grimly humorous portraits of the natives-Spike, the mean taxidriver; Shannon, the old postmaster, who is almost the only humane figure in the lot; the unfaithful bride, whose lover is in terror of her husband's shotgun; old Double S. Winston, the banker, who puts down...
...Great Powers, plus the rounding out last week of the French-sponsored international embargo on arms shipments to Spain by the adherence of Germany, made Madrid Bigwig Prieto angrily conclude that evidently the White forces in Spain enjoy the covert sympathy of London and Paris as well as the candid sympathy of Rome and Berlin. "I cannot understand why France and Great Britain can be so blind!" cried Indalecio Prieto. "How can they envision with pleasure the establishment of a Fascist regime in the west end of Europe? What will they say if General Franco wins and gives our Balearic...
...hands. Selma went to New York, but found that she had no taste for Bohemian high jinks in Greenwich Village. With her brother, she went on a tour through Iowa at the depth of hard times, learned more of the depths of small-town hypocrisy from his candid stories of what was going...