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After his advanced guard had been cut off the air, Head Putschster Coles Phinizy '42 announced wittily, "The co-operation in our blitzkrieg shows that there is an alarming amount of fifth colum activities in the United States and we fear that democracy is in peril...
Last week a little group of people got together in Manhattan in an atmosphere of unaccustomed awe. They were friends of James Joyce-Editor Eugene Jolas (transition) and his wife; Poet Padraic Colum and his wife; Robert Nathan Kastor, brother of Joyce's daughter-in-law; others. Fortnight before, a terse cable had announced that the author of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake was dead in Zurich. Joyce's friends were forming a committee to aid his widow, daughter...
...case to come to trial, Wheeler was acquitted in ten minutes. As the verdict came in, a tele gram arrived from Washington telling of the birth of a daughter. Wheeler named her Marion Montana, the Marion after "Fighting Bob" (Robert Marion) La Follette Sr. On his 80th birthday, in Colum bus, Ohio, Jan. 26, old man Daugherty said he bore Wheeler no ill will, thought he would probably make a good President...
FROM THESE ROOTS-Mary M. Colum -Scribner ($2.50). Twelve essays, discussing writers as far apart as Flaubert and Thomas Wolfe, linked together by an analysis of "the ideas that have made modern literature"; the work of a seasoned, conservative critic whose writing is always lucid and shrewd, sometimes (as in her comments on "the despair of the modern world") eloquent, powerful, exact...
...STORY OF LOWRY MAEX-Padraic Colum-Macmillan ($1.90). Epic broth from the marrowless bones of prehistoric Irish people (transition from Bronze to Iron Age). Harmless, charming, faint...