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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Each character, Andrew, Greta, Sandy, and the others, has his goal, his "light burning" often in the shadowy realms of imagination. It is because the author does not crystallize the symbolical meaning, the somewhat ethereal quality of his work, that it is made the more effective. Constantly the reader's...

Author: By J. M., | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 6/19/1935 | See Source »

Very little of Lafcadio Hearn's background appears in his son's reminiscences, largely because, like many sons, Kazuo Koizumi overestimates the extent of the world's familiarity with his father's career. Eleven years old when his father died, Kazuo Koizumi writes of him with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Marriage | 6/17/1935 | See Source »

Thus last week Walter Howey tossed aside the news that he had been called in to doctor the New York Mirror, sick Hearst tabloid. There was a polite little announcement by General Director Arthur Brisbane, who dug down in his bag of trick titles, pulled one out marked "news adviser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hearst's Howey | 6/17/1935 | See Source »

If Hankow, nearly 600 miles up the muddy Yangtze River, is the Chicago of China, then round-faced youthful General Yeh Peng, Garrison Commander of the Wuhan cities (Hankow, Hanyang, Wuchang) is the Chinese Chicago's boss. But General Yeh Peng is a far more admirable character than many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Thanks For Relief | 6/10/1935 | See Source »

The legendary character of the old South, all chivalresque, julepy and magnolious, is still stoutly upheld by such loyal romanticists as Stark Young and Julia Peterkin, but its present reputation has been considerably damaged by the nightmare realism of William Faulkner and Erskine Caldwell. Author Caldwell, particularly, has been almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cheap South | 6/10/1935 | See Source »

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