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...Bernard DeVoto is a historian and ex-Harvard lecturer who makes his real money by writing slick-magazine love fiction (usually under the pen name of John August) and gets his prejudices off his chest, with none of the historian's usual judicial balance, in Harper's Magazine. A few weeks ago, in Harper's, he proposed a public campaign of passive rebellion against J. Edgar Hoover's Federal Bureau of Investigation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONTROVERSY: A Few Answers, Please | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...like a country where it's nobody's damned business what magazines anyone reads, what he thinks, whom he has cocktails with . . . where no college-trained flatfeet collect memoranda about us," wrote DeVoto. " . . . If it is my duty as citizen to tell what I know about someone, I will perform that duty under subpoena ... I will not discuss anyone in private with any government investigator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONTROVERSY: A Few Answers, Please | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...this, Harper's editors added an admiring little note about "Horatio" DeVoto and the hope that every devoted reader would line up behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONTROVERSY: A Few Answers, Please | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

After an opening program last week on Communist school-teachers, the Law School Forum turns from politics to humanities this evening for a discussion of "What's New in American Literature?" in Rindge Tech auditorium at 3 p.m. Speakers at the meeting will include: Bernard DeVoto '18, Ludwig Lowisohn, Elizabeth Janeway, and Roger Burlingame...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DeVoto, Lewisohn Talk At Law Forum Tonight | 10/7/1949 | See Source »

...Devoto, well-known author and critic, is at present conducting the "Easy Chair" feature of Harper's Magazine. Among his books are The Year of Decision: 1846" and "Mark Twain's America...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DeVoto, Lewisohn Talk At Law Forum Tonight | 10/7/1949 | See Source »

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