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Indiana University (peacetime enrolment : 7,000) is the alma mater of both Paul McNutt and Wendell Willkie. Like other universities, it occasionally invites various bigwigs to give lectures under its auspices. Last year, the Will Patten Foundation lecturer was Bernard DeVoto, onetime professor, onetime editor of The Saturday Review of Literature, who looks like a bumblebee and writes like an angry hornet...
Four cops, warned in advance, followed chubby Critic Bernard DeVoto into a Cambridge, Massachusetts bookstore. So did a Civil Liberties Union lawyer. Then followed a neatly planned little routine. Critic DeVoto asked for a copy of Lillian Smith's Southern novel, Strange Fruit, which had been suppressed by Boston booksellers and banned by Cambridge's police chief for mixing a stubby Anglo-Saxon word into a serious study of miscegenation (TIME, April 10). For his $2.75, Benny DeVoto got a copy of the book and some strange fruit of his own seeking: a court summons for trafficking...
...Civil Liberties Union will defend Isenstadt and DeVoto, who will be arraigned next Saturday for selling and purchasing literature containing obscene language. Working with the Civil Liberties Union have been the Harvard Liberal Union, who canvassed Cambridge bookstores for a test case, and the American Youth for Democracy, which presented a pettion to the Coop requesting that the Coop make the test...
Books which dealt with the future in terms of past history were: Historian Charles Beard's distinguished examination of U.S. democracy, The Republic ($3), Bernard DeVoto's The Year of Decision: 1846 ($3.50), Hamilton Basso's Mainstream...
Historian DeVoto justifies his detailed retelling of the Donner story by saying that "it is as the commonplace or typical just distorted that the Donners must be seen." The emigrant train was "the village on wheels," the U.S. in miniature. So, like the reader, Author DeVoto goes on & on in a sick fascination, unable to free himself from the sense that the Donners are simply an extreme case of any society that has lost the will to get its members over one of history's divides...