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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Widener's collection contains almost every mention of Roosevelt made during his life. It covers in detail a broad background of American history during Roosevelt's 40 years of public service from 1880 to 1920, concentrating especially upon his two biggest projects, the Spanish-American War and the Panama Canal...
Someone once said that the life of Theodore Roosevelt was the ultimate dream of every typical American boy: he was a deputy sheriff in the old West, fought in a war, killed lions, and became President. His exploits were amazing, and the collection covers all of them in detail...
Before German Novelist Theodor Plievier brings Moscow to a close, the "wonder" touch has passed from Hitler to Stalin, and the scope and horror of modern war has been described with a combination of pitiless detail and powerful sweep by the best novelist who has written on World War II. Plievier richly earned that rating with Stalingrad (TIME, Nov. i, 1948), and while Moscow is not so dramatic as his earlier story, it is the kind of book that leaves a residue of flaming images in a reader's mind. The second volume of a trilogy...
...Thompson's The Alcohol, and Eugene Higgins' excerpt from The Sons of Darkness. Thompson makes a stab at slipping a little social commentary into a picture of lower-class life, but defeats his own attempt at realism by a ludicrous overuse of profanity, bad grammar, and irrelevant detail. Higgins' story has little to recommend it. It is juvenile in its forced attention to detail and never really reaches the reader...
...palace, between ceremonies, Magloire puts aside fancy dress and operates as the kind of detail-cracking, eleven-hour-a-day executive that any topflight Detroit industrialist could understand. He rises in the dawn cacophony of his capital's unbelievably numerous roosters, and hops on an exercise machine. After a rubdown, he breakfasts in bathrobed comfort on fruit and cafe au lait. Then, in a suite filled with alabaster busts, stuffed pink cranes, Empire clocks and pictures of himself and other Haitian heroes, the President reads reports and mail, takes a thoughtful second look at work saved over from...