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Dates: during 1930-1939
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By countless such uninsistent details, Bessie's writing has the effect of telling exactly how it was. How it was for the Americans, with Times Square still in their heads, singing "There's a long, long trail awinding" at night in dimly blue-lit trains, learning infantry drill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How It Was | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Bessie got his first shock on joining the Lincoln Battalion after its retreat from Teruel. Of 500 men who had started the battle there were about 100 filthy, unarmed survivors, silent or snarling, lying dead-beat on a hillside. In a week, with new replacements and an issue of old...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How It Was | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Night of the Poor is the answer to that question. Like The Asiatics its only plot is a record of travel, but this time the traveler is a 17-year-old boy bumming his way south from Wisconsin to his home in Texas. Tom starts out with his friend Pete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Plausible Echoes | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Tom resembles the hero of The Asiatics in his magic immunity from hunger, accident, fatigue. When Tom loses Lucy he knows he'll see her again simply because Lucy is going to Texas, too. A pursued gangster gives him a ride in a big, black Hudson; he lives on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Plausible Echoes | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Merry Herskovits starred for the Yardlings and Jim Gleason played a dependable game at goal, knocking down a number of would-be goal kicks.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Powerful Purple Eleven Overwhelms Crimson Booters in Overtime Period | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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