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Last week Indian-loving Commissioner John Collier helped explode the myth that these first families of America are vanishing. Said he: Indians are increasing in North America more rapidly than whites; Indians of the Western Hemisphere number 30,000,000. There were never more than about 900,000 Indians...
...mind. Leonard Ross' Hyman Kaplan story is humorous, of course, and so are the Arthur Kober and Donald Moffat and Richard Lockridge stories. But far more typical are the bitter Jerome Weidman pieces, Irwin Shaw's savage "Sailor off the Bremen" and the incredibly sinister "Wet Saturday" of John Collier. One explanation--perhaps minor, but none the less interesting--suggests itself: the collection represents fifteen and a half years, in that some of the stories actually go back to 1925; but the bulk of the material was published between 1934 or '35 and 1940. The second world...
...Take It. The picture is an unvarnished record of what happens to London and Londoners when hundreds of tons of explosive and incendiary bombs are dropped upon them day and night, week in, week out. For U. S. audiences, the commentator was big, beefy Quentin Reynolds, war correspondent for Collier's weekly, whose favorite vantage point for watching air raids was the unsheltered roof of his apartment building (Lansdowne House, renamed "Arson House") in London's swank Berkeley Square. Of all the tough U. S. writers covering the Battle of Britain, "Quent" Reynolds was close to the toughest...
Before the Los Angeles Advertising Club, Speaker Thomas Hambly Beck, president of Crowell Publishing Co. (Collier's, Woman's Home Companion, American Magazine) dramatically gave up the British ghost: "The bombing that is going on is so terrific that no people can withstand it. In my opinion, the British Empire will be finished by the end of this month...
...Indian Commissioner John Collier testified before a Senate Committee that fifth columnists had made no headway among his Indians, but that he could not say the same for the Senate Indian Affairs Committee which had approved a bill proposed and backed, said he, by "subversive" groups...