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...time." Little known in Spain until 1927, when he returned to Madrid after two years in Florence, he gradually became recognized as one of the finest artists of the people since Goya. While he was in prison for his Socialism in 1931, Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passes got him his first one-man show in the U. S. In July 1936, he finished his most ambitious mural, eleven panels containing 140 life-size figures, for Madrid's monument to the founder of Spanish Socialism, Pablo Iglesias. A few nights later Painter Quintanilla made himself a hero...
...John Dos Passes-Harcourt Brace ($3). One volume, 1,500-page edition of Dos Passes' trilogy: Forty-Second Parallel, 1919, The Big Money...
...been laid under tribute by the present editors gives one a legitimate pride in having had anything at all to do with such an apostolic succession. Here are some of the names contained in it: Norman Hapgood, William Vaughn Moody, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Alan Seegar, Van Wyck Brooks, John Dos Passos, Walter Lippmann--the catalogue should really be given in full. It is too trite an observation to venture, that when these and other undergraduates were trying their wings in the "Monthly" their names meant not a whit more to the reading public than those of our young contemporaries...
...York City what his Street Scene did for one of its blocks, the novel is a sort of tabloid morality play, about on a literary level with Felix Reisenberg's East Side, West Side, leading best-seller of its kind, a number of levels below John Dos Passos' Manhattan Transfer. Clearly marked for commercial success, this Rice pudding is seasoned with everything that ever came out of Author Rice's cupboard: courtroom atmosphere (On Trial, Counsellor-at-Law), social indignation (We, the People), personal pique (letters to the New York Times), alternately satirical and glamorous treatment...
CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR CORKING HEMINGWAY ARTICLE [TIME, Oct. 18]. JUST AS YOUR EXITING COLOR REPRODUCTIONS IN LIFE ARE FURTHERING THE CAUSE OF MODERN AMERICAN ART YOUR TIME ARTICLES ON SUCH GREAT WRITERS AS DOS PASSOS AND HEMINGWAY ARE WAKING THIS COUNTRY TO THE FACT THAT OUR CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE IS SOMETHING OF WHICH EVERY AMERICAN CAN BE INTENSELY PROUD I HATE TO QUIBBLE BUT LAST TIME I WAS IN HEMINGWAY'S HOME IN KEY WEST I DEFINITELY SAW THREE SONS TRUE WE HAD TAKEN ON BOARD A QUANTITY OF HEMINGWAY'S SUPERB IRISH WHISKEY, BUT SURELY NOT ENOUGH...