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Heiden's new book is the Book-of-the-Month-Club's choice for February. It is a scrambled, 774-page history of Naziism and its principal characters from the earliest beginnings to the Purge of 1934, a biography of the Führer, a study of Germany since 1918 and a discourse on Germanic thought from Hegel to Hitler. The theme that binds it all together, if any thing does, may not seem to some readers like thoughtfully balanced sociology. Yet few readers will deny that Heiden has made an ingenious, readable, shocking case for his "pragmatical...
Foreshadowing the fruition of that talent is the earliest of the 23 drawings with which Author Lehmann-Haupt records the growth of Dore's style. It is the childhood vision of his Strasbourg schoolroom. Its squirming, unposed action bespeaks an eye that never let go of much (an asset unmistakable in a later-year impression of a London crowd, which echoed the same theme of hellishly snarled humanity). In the early schoolroom satire there is also more than a suggestion of how little the artist was ever able to let go of his mother. When she died...
...been foreseen. . . . Excellent nurses and the highest medical authorities in the Mediterranean arrived from all quarters as if by magic. This admirable M & B [sulfapyridine was originally called May & Baker 693, after the firm which made it], from which I did not suffer any inconvenience, was used at the earliest moment and after a week's fever the intruders were repulsed. I hope all our battles will be equally well conducted...
Born in Coytesville, N.J., Price grew up near the late, famed water-colorist and graphic artist "Pop" Hart, and attributes his earliest and soundest inspiration to that master of the homely subject. Price has never been to art school. For his cartooning guidance he uses models, a big collection of his own candid sketches - and memory. He prefers the last...
...still the war's tightest secret. But this much is certain: it will be the earliest day on which 1) the problems of logistics and planning have been licked; 2) all-important weather is friendly. Quite possibly, it may be a day among the next...