Word: confessional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Washington will not long be lonely. Five other 35,000-ton battleships, two 45,000-tonners (largest in the world) are also abuilding for the Navy. Next to be launched is the 35,000-ton North Carolina next week (at the Brooklyn Navy Yard). But launching is not completion: not...
THE LABYRINTHINE WAYS - Graham Greene - Viking ($2.50). Novelist Greene writes out-of-the-ordinary adventure stories (others: The Man Within, The Name of Action, Brighton Rock, The Confidential Agent), combining tense narrative and limbo-like atmosphere. In The Labyrinthine Ways he finds an almost ideal character for his talents: the...
The earliest of the essays, "On the Study of Politics," an admirable confession of faith, goes back to 1926, and the latest, "The English Constitution and French Public Opinion, 1789-1794," is of 1938. The intervening studies, "Law and Justice in Soviet Russia," "The Judicial Function," "The Committee System in...
Died. Ellis Howard Parker, 68, ill-famed Lindbergh case detective, who went to jail for conspiring to kidnap Attorney Paul H. Wendel and extorting from him a subsequently repudiated confession which postponed the execution of Bruno Richard Hauptmann (see p. 38) ; of brain tumor; in the Federal penitentiary, Lewisburg, Pa...
To recall the background of that historic tangle with Stalin, Ben Gitlow, highest placed and most articulate U. S. Communist yet to spill the beans, last week published a 611-page confession of his Party life. It is a lively and extraordinary history. Unlike most ex-Communists, Author Gitlow does...