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Chief of the few remaining "radical" organs is the black-typed, semi-Communistic New Masses. Once it was called the Masses and Floyd Dell, a mild-eyed young man from Illinois, was its editor. At the close of the War, the Masses was suppressed. When it was revived in 1926 as the New Masses, a Manhattanite named Michael Gold became its editor. Floyd Dell continued as "Contributing Editor," one of 48 on its letterhead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Christmas Present | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

...interim. Fame had come to Floyd Dell. He had written some novels that sold [Moon Calf, The Briary Bush, This Mad Ideal]. Lately he biographed Upton Sinclair, the California liberty-shouter. The past winter the innocuous father farce Little Accident, based on his book The Unmarried Father, has been a money-getter on Broadway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Christmas Present | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

Last month, the now-affluent Floyd Dell wrote a letter to Editor Gold in which he said: "I at first wished to have my name associated with the magazine because it represented a partly Communistic Communist and at any rate rebellious literary tendency, with which I am in sympathy. However, what it seems chiefly to represent is a neurotic literary and pictorial estheticism with which I am completely out of sympathy, and with which I would rather not be associated. . . . Yours for the Revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Christmas Present | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

Last week Editor Gold published Contributor Dell's letter in the New Masses. With it he published a reply. Excerpts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Christmas Present | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

...Floyd Dell had a brief period of significance. . . . At no time was [he] a real revolutionist. . . . He was a Greenwich Village playboy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Christmas Present | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

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