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...three second prizes, of $25 cach, went to Robert L. Fischelis '49 for his presentation of "Flammonde" by E. A. Robinson; Justin S. Colin '45, who gave a selection from John dos Passos entitled "Camera-eye No. 50"; and William G. Becker '51, who recited Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address...
...serials), Marquand's name was synonymous with surefire slick writing. In those days, says Marquand, "I was a simple little boy in the lower echelons, naive about literature and the world in general, just a good boy trying to conform. I thought John Dos Passos was a terrible yellow belly for griping about the war." But at the time, he thought he had the world by the tail. He went to Europe in 1921 ("I was Lord Byron on a triumphal tour. God, it was wonderful!"), and in Rome became engaged to Christina Sedgwick, niece of Atlantic Monthly Editor...
...John Snow's critique of "The Naked and The Dead." Snow manages to take apart the professional critics neatly and without an undue display of emotion, and then proceeds to point out the qualities of Mailer's novel which never occurred to those who typed him as a straight Dos Passos-Hemingway disciple. This is a considered review which stresses affirmative qualities in the novel unnoticed by most commentators...
...weeks the back-country jibaros (farmers) had planned for El Dia Dos (Jan. 2)-the great day when Puerto Rico would inaugurate its first elected governor. When the day came this week, 150,000 islanders turned out to cheer for Governor Luis Mufioz Marin in the biggest celebration of San Juan's 455-year history...
Harried Capital. As brisk, top-of-the-mind journalism, The Grand Design is fun. Dos Passos has fixed his sights on New Deal Washington, located its telltale landmarks: harried officials, their minds cross-grained with idealism and opportunism; ascetic lunches, reflecting the prevalence of ulcers; gaps of hollow loneliness between lunges of ambition; and pure-souled efforts of some men to serve their country without profit...