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...face that stops a man, meeting him for the first time. The skin is burnt and leather-beaten by the sun to a permanent brown, cut and scarred by razor-sharp lines that drop perpendicularly about his mouth. About the eyes sky-strain has woven a lacework of crow's-feet. Within this net work, two coal-black eyes brood and smolder. Said an artist assigned to do a portrait of the General : "That man has the face of a hawk...
...strangely-forgotten date in U.S. history underlined by Author Crow: Sept. 3, 1783, when Britain signed a treaty that formally recognized...
Until last week, Author Carl Crow's reputation rested on his richly flavored understanding of the Chinese, his long-term hatred of the Japs. His 400 Million Customers (1937), the fruit of his 26 years of successful journalism and advertising in the Orient, became a best-seller in nine languages. But this week Carl Crow's twelfth book-The Great American Customer (Harper; $3)-proved that its author was also an adept in U.S. business history...
...with reproductions of early advertisements, ranging from Colonial day notices of brandy fresh off the boat to Victorian plugs for high-wheeled gentlemen's velocipedes and high-heeled ladies' boots. This collection of the ads that moved Father to buy is both nostalgic and funny. Coony Author Crow presents it without comment, as if it had nothing to do with the times which it so perfectly illustrates (see cuts...
Moral for Americans. Careful Carl Crow draws only one moral from his collection of early Americana: that the U.S. grew great precisely because it "had no carriage trade," and had to cater to the needs of its ubiquitous poor. But implicit in almost all his tales of Yankee ingenuity and invention-for-the-masses is another moral even more pertinent to U.S. industry. The U.S. got its head start in mass production precisely because the old countries thought they could maintain their monopoly of all the known skills of the 18th and 19th Centuries. In so doing they forced their...