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...even sell the Air Forces' own Official Guide (525,000 copies printed)-it has an execrable portrait of Franklin Roosevelt as a frontispiece. These were added last week to a suppress list which already includes such "dangerous" intellectual weapons as Charles Beard's The Republic and Catherine Drinker Bowen's biography of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Yankee from Olympus (TIME, May 8).* Any of these, said the Army, might influence the 1944 elections...
YANKEE FROM OLYMPUS - Catherine Drinker Bowen - Little, Brown...
Since the late great Justice Holmes died, in 1935, he has been the subject of eight books and 47 major articles. The latest is the most romantic - a fictionalized biography by Catherine Drinker Bowen, co-author with Barbara Von Meek of Beloved Friend (TIME, Feb. 1, 1937), fictionalized biography of the Russian composer Peter Tchaikovsky...
Fowler gives new spin to Barrymore's overadvertised failings by making figures speak louder than words. In his first ten years in Hollywood, Barrymore earned $2,634,500, squandered almost every cent of it. A steady drinker at 14, in his last 40 years-a doctor estimated-Barrymore swallowed "640 barrels of hard stuff." Once, while suffering from extreme fatigue, he tackled a script 56 times, could never recite it through. Otherwise he was seldom at a loss for words. Good Night, Sweet Prince offers many a fresh example of Barrymore's under-the-table talk...
...Clark loves the infantry. To him it is literally the "Queen of Battles." The affection began all of the General's 47 years ago. For he was born in an infantry camp, so to speak: at Madison Barracks, in upstate New York, a post near which onetime hard-drinker Ulysses S. Grant is said to have organized the Sons of Temperance. His father, the late Colonel C. C. Clark, was an infantryman, a career soldier and West Pointer, who exerted a large influence over...