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...intellectual Left. If so, it is a small (circ. 6,500) and often confused voice. Once Communist, it shifted to quasi-Trotskyite, is now vaguely Marxian (but anti-Stalinist), and more literary than partisan. In its 13 years it has published such U.S. writers as John Dos Passos, James T. Farrell, and Gertrude Stein...
Three hundred and fifty U.S. writers and artists had pooled their dollars and their talents to put out a magazine they could call their own (TIME, July 1). There were salable names among them: Steinbeck, Dos Passos, Lippmann, Hersey, Fadiman, Gropper. The editors boldly promised "stories, experiences and ideas these great writers and illustrators have always yearned to tell you." This week the pocket-sized magazine's first issue appeared on the stands. Its name (which it hopes to change annually...
Enormously earnest and energetic, The Varmints is also enormously overwritten, and naive. Walt Whitman might have tried a novel like this at 21, had he been born a girl and been exposed to the heat of Freud, Faulkner, Dos Passes, Fannie Hurst and Gulf Coast Florida...
Barea's narrative of his first year in besieged Madrid mixes impressions of heroism with comedy, brutality with cowardice. He worked for the Loyalist Foreign Ministry, under shell fire in the Telephone Building, censoring the dispatches of foreign correspondents. He liked Herbert Matthews, Ernest Hemingway, and John Dos Passos. Others seemed hateful to him, treating as a football game what he felt to be a tragic .agony. He survived it with the help of an Austrian woman whom he later married...
...thought was good for their readers. It ran cheesecake-but also Charles A. Beard's The Republic, condensed in ten installments. Well aware that not every picture was worth 10,000 words, its editors made room for editorials, closeups, "text pieces" by men of letters (Winston Churchill, John Dos Passos, Reinhold Niebuhr, et al.). Still popularly regarded as a "picture magazine," LIFE now averages up to 20,000 words of text per issue-the wordage of a novelette. It took science out of the moonlit fantasies of the Sunday supplement, made it understandable to millions yet acceptable to scientists...