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...Bernard DeVoto '18, author of "Across the wide Missouri," won the 1952 National book Award for his "The Course of Empire." He also received the Pulitzer Prize in history. J. P. Marquand '15 got the same award for his book, "The Late George Apply." Laurence McKinney '12, a steel executive, is author of "Lines of Least Resistance" and other light poetry...
...American book publishing industry announced its honor list, the National Book Awards. Fiction: Ralph Ellison (Invisible Man); nonfiction: Bernard DeVoto (The Course of Empire); poetry: Archibald MacLeish (Collected Poems...
...Massachusetts Civil Liberties Union then decided to bring the case out into the open and fight it. By prearrangement, Bernard DeVoto, accompanied by his attorney and two Vice Squad detectives, purchased a copy of Strange Fruit in the Harvard Law Book Exchange. The proprietor of the Exchange was brought into a lower court where he was found guilty of selling "obscene" material and fined $200. Upon appeal, Superior Court justices upheld the lower body's decision, but only with some reluctance. Unfortunately, under the old law the higher court was permitted only to review the actual conduct of the previous...
...opportunity to denounce what he considers a cardinal sin--concentration by the critic on a writer's life rather than on his work. ("The book Walden in mentioned specifically, in four passing sentences though there is repeated reference to it as a pond.") Similarly, in a review of Bernard DeVoto's Mark Twain at Work, he ends with the thought that "DeVoto seems determined to prove through his tub-thumping exaggerations that he possesses every temper but the critical temper...
...DeVoto could not be reached for any comment last night...