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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...
...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...
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...
Last week Editor Gold published Contributor Dell's letter in the New Masses. With it he published a reply. Excerpts...
...Floyd Dell had a brief period of significance. . . . At no time was [he] a real revolutionist. . . . He was a Greenwich Village playboy...