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...publisher of the old Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., one of the world's biggest book publishers; in Toronto. A publisher with a mind of his own, Doran refused to publish D. H. Lawrence's The Rainbow on moral grounds, was allegedly called a coward by John Dos Passos for censoring his Three Soldiers before publishing it. Training a jaundiced eye on postwar bestsellers, Doran once said: "Can't say I think much of 'em. Trashy, dirty stuff ... No spiritual force, no moral fiber. Great Scott, I'm no Victorian prude. But a publisher...
...first issue, which will be about 130 pages long, includes among its articles "Class Consciousness in Liberal Thought" by Louis Harts '40, associate professor of Government, "Liberalism: The Next Step" by Kaplowitz, "The Pilgrim's Progress of John Dos Passos" by Anthony Winner, and "The Business Man as Hero" the Jane Johnson Alan Grossman's "Berlin Poems" will also be in the issue...
...Dealers for thinking the people "too dumb to know what is best for them," but he hated "the Old Guard minds" among Republicans and became one of Adlai Stevenson's top campaign writers. He said that Ernest Hemingway's characters were "anthropoids," that those of Dos Passes were "diminished marionettes." He cham pioned Pareto, James Farrell and Robert Frost, denounced Van Wyck Brooks, Thomas Wolfe and practically everyone else. Of modern Western women he said: "I should like to call them buxom, deep-breasted, strong-thewed, fit to be mates and mothers of big men. Mathematics forbids...
...club, the young executive finds there are strict dos and don'ts. In some, second, third, and fourth-rank clubs, a member can get away with making a direct pitch for business, talk shop either on the greens or in the locker room. But at front-rank clubs, the hustler is shunned like the plague. The good clubs are hard to get into and expensive (up to $6,000 for the initiation fee alone), and most members resent an obvious mixing of business with pleasure...
...phoned Robertson, who refused to let him accompany him to the airport. Rushing to the airport alone. Beal questioned DOS men waiting to see the party off. They were noncommittal. But Beal, circulating and asking circumspect questions, picked up the clue that sent him racing back into the maze of Washington officialdom...