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...activity was the publication of a pamphlet called Walled in This Tomb. A 29-page indictment of the action of A. Lawrence Lowell's committee in upholding the conviction of Sacco & Vanzetti in 1927, the pamphlet was signed by such Harvard Reds as Powers Hapgood, Heywood Broun, John Dos Passes, Stuart Chase, who wanted to know "what happened to the mental processes of ... Alma Mater's President...
...confident that I express the opinion of thousands of alert readers and writers who have long been aware of John Dos Passes' excellent work when I send along my congratulations for TIME'S topflight review of The Big Money in the Aug. 10 issue. An able, critical estimate of which TIME'S Books editor may well be proud. AUGUST W. DERLETH...
After Harvard, Dos Passos went to Spain, with the idea of studying architecture. Instead, he enlisted in a French ambulance service, transferred to the A. E. F. as a private in the Medical Corps. He wrote his first book (One Man's Initiation), a story based on his war experience, published in England. As a correspondent and free lance in Spain, after the Armistice, he wrote his second, Three Soldiers, which made him a name in the U. S. with its four-letter realism. With Manhattan Transfer (1925), in which he started experimenting with the form he later perfected...
Unlike most novelists, Dos Passos seldom talks shop, has no liking for professional discussion of his own or his contemporaries' work. He considers writing a full-time job like any other. His own working habits are as steady as a farmer's. He gets up early, works through the morning wherever he happens to be. In Provincetown he swims before lunch, goes sailing every afternoon, takes little or no part in Provincetown's art-colony doings. Since he is traveling most of the time his household has something of the air of a dwelling that is just...
Except for his tenderly polite manner and the enthusiasm that bubbles in his R-less, drawing-room voice, he might be mistaken for a member of Harvard's famed Porcellian Club. He is "Dos" to a wide acquaintance, but he has few intimate friends. At parties he is famed for his polite but sudden departures, for leaving his hat in a special place by itself, so that he will not have to rummage for it when he makes his getaway. Sensitive of other people's feelings to the point of anguish, he will sometimes blurt out what...