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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Sharp, exact detail is a TIME quality which readers respect. For TIME to say that Phil Stong's State Fair is "rich in sharp, exact detail" is to trespass on this TIME quality which to the devoted newsmagazine reader is sacred ground. TIME'S review of State Fair was reasonable, but to refer to the book as a standard of accuracy in details of Iowa rural life (p. 33, Sept. 5 issue) is deserving of challenge. Three times Author Stong stubs his toes on pebbles of detail any Iowa 4-H pig club member knows all about...
...without plan through pages of advertising, the new McCall's looks like three magazines bound as one. The first 30 pages are designated "News & Fiction." Therein are stories, reviews of cinema, music, radio, books, religion. Then the reader comes to a second cover in four colors, showing a detail of a table set for luncheon. This section is named "Homemaking." Fifty pages farther back a third color cover (woman at a dressing table) introduces "Style & Beauty." Advertisements are distributed to correspond. Every advertiser is assured preferred position for his copy...
Like most hardworking people, lowans like detail. Rich in sharp, exact detail was Phil Stong's novel, State Fair, laid in Des Moines (TIME, May 9). But Phil Stong omitted one detail of the Iowa State Fair-the art contest for a sweepstakes prize. Last week as the 1932 Fair began, this year's sweepstakes was won again, as it has been every year since 1929, by Painter Grant Wood of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, an even more passionate detail-monger than Author Stong. Other prizes went to amateur artists from Grinnell, Schaller, Independence, Des Moines, Ames, Iowa City...
Without going into the irrelevancy of detail, Shaughnessy-Sullivan gives the impression of having said what there was to say about his microcosmos, drops many a memorable remark by the way. Novel-addicts will cheer his dictum: "Novels, in particular, enlarge one's life. More than any other branch of literature they make one acquainted with the panorama of life, and with the variety of human emotions." His view on war is more practical than Kellogg's and the late Aristide Briand's: "It seems to me that the only way to prevent future wars...
...North Atlantic field, leaving P. A. A. to work out its projected air passage to Europe via Greenland and Iceland. Last week P. A. A. acquired another strategic outpost-Alaskan Airways, comprising 2,500 mi. of lines. The future was too obscure to be read in detail but any observer could make plausible guesses merely on the strength of Capt. Wolfgang von Gronau's recent predictions of airplane service between Europe and the Orient via the Northern Passage, Canada, northern U. S., the Pacific Coast, the Kuriles (TIME, Aug. 8). Alaskan Airways was the property of potent Aviation Corp...