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...clean-cut chronology. The result is a sense of historical meaning, from Hitler's first martial rumbles to the dramatic ceremony on the deck of the Missouri. Much of the book's clean impact comes from the 75,000-word text, written mostly by Novelist John Dos Passos and TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod. Closely wedded to the pictures, their text is at once sharp description and lucid interpretation...
Just at noon on the day after elections, the vote count began in Rio's Hotel dos Estrangeiros. Electoral Board No. 13 opened the first presidential ballots. The judge looked at the first ballot and intoned: "The first vote is for Getulio Vargas." The second, third and fourth ballots were also for Vargas. Not until the fifth ballot did Brigadeiro Eduardo Gomes score. The first vote for Christiano Machado, the government's candidate, was recorded even later...
Moscow's Literary Gazette labeled John Dos Passos a "literary gangster" and Henry Wallace "a political businessman." Both were "enemies of humanity...
...collaborated with Conrad." As editor of the English Review, Ford was the first to print poems and stories by the young D. H. Lawrence-and in return for the favor was roundly abused by that ungrateful genius. Later, Expatriates Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passes made their early marks in Ford's transatlantic review...
...places: down & outers in Manhattan's Penn Station, war veterans living on pride, hungry poets mooching from a successful colleague. If this were all that Faulkner could do, he would be buried in an obscure corner of U.S. letters, as a minor realist in the tradition of Dos Passes, Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald...