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Most Americans who remember the Prohibition Era would rather not. But to Norman Hume Anthony, onetime editor of Judge, Life and Ballyhoo, ft is the time when Americans were happiest. His autobiography, just published, How to Grow Old Disgracefully (Duell, Sloan & Pearce; $3) is a flippant, bawdy, superficial account of phenomenal success and complete comedown in the tricky business of trying to make magazine readers laugh. It is also the most unashamed backward look at the National Bender in a long time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Them Were the Days | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

Aragon: Poet of the French Resistance (Duell, Sloan & Pearce, $2), edited by Hannah Josephson and Malcolm Cowley, offered a translated selection from among four of the six volumes of verse which this facile versifier wrote in France during and after the German occupation. Aragon was celebrated in this volume as the laureate of the Maquis. In English these poems, intensely patriotic, often loose and ballad-like, richly embellished with surrealist imagery, are eloquent, interesting, but difficult to assess as poetry. The detached reader is likely to wonder whether Aragon is being canonized with too little regard for Jean Cocteau...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry, Dec. 17, 1945 | 12/17/1945 | See Source »

...WESTWARD-Robert Sherrod-Duell, Sloan & Pearce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Road to Victory | 12/10/1945 | See Source »

...SUMMER LONG - Wilder Hobson -Duell, Sloan & Pearce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Meandering Manners | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

...Music Is GONE - LeGarde Doughty-Duell, Sloan & Pearce ($2.50). In St. John's County. Florida, a country doctor fights malaria, delivers babies, sends a young protegee to medical school. Sketchy but full of authentic characters and atmosphere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction | 4/30/1945 | See Source »

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