Word: doren
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...LIFE AND WRITINGS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN - Philip Van Doren Stern -Random House ($3.75). Described by Historian Allan Nevins as "much the amplest and best selected body of Lincoln's writings ever brought into convenient form," this book makes a valuable companion to Carl Sandburg's great six-volume biography (TIME, Dec. 4). Neither U. S. readers nor, unfortunately, U. S. public men have ever paid enough attention to the prose of Lincoln's speeches in the '50s, disciplined, direct and clear, with "a logical power as sharp and crushing as a battle ax." Because it contains...
WINDLESS CABINS-Mark Van Doren -Henry Holt...
...subtle and sober poet, Mr. Van Doren has published one novel before. With considerable art Author Van Doren builds up an atmosphere of foreboding through a girl's terror of her horrible-tongued, death-ridden aunt, manages an accidental murder by the girl's sweetheart, a boy who works in a tourist camp, creates one or two unforgettable moments of suspense as the boy successfully hides his crime. But then he goes soft on the whole thing in a happy ending for which Aunt Esther conveniently turns out to have a heart of gold...
Some of the most notable Leftist writers of the day wrote for Villard: Norman Thomas, Stuart Chase, Paul Y. Anderson, Heywood Broun, Carl Sandburg, Theodore Dreiser, Carl Van Doren. By 1935 they had far outstripped Villard's radical leanings, and he sold The Nation. Maurice Wertheim, a Manhattan financier and philanthropist, owned it for a brief spell, then passed it on in 1937 to Freda Kirchwey...
...Manhattan dinner where Author Carl Van Doren gave him a scroll for one of the ten best non-fiction books of the year (Inside Asia), slab-sided Journalist John Gunther announced he had still to learn enough about his native land to write an Inside America...