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...Verge" of Significance. Warren could think of 14 writers (half of them poets) who, he thought, were doing "good work." Book-of-the-Month Club Judge Marquand, whose job is to find books he can extol, finds that "the older writers have said about all they can be expected to say. The younger writers have something inside themselves that's new and different . . . . They aren't trying to write like Hemingway . . . . Lately things have been picking up . . . . Our literature is just on the verge of getting significant." He singled out as the best of the young writers Jean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What's Wrong? | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

Beware the Weak. Malaparte says he dined with German Governor General Hans Frank at his Warsaw palace, heard him extol German Kultur, play Chopin with delicacy, later that same night saw him use a live child for target practice while the women of the party giggled. Says Malaparte: "In no part of Europe had the Germans appeared to me so naked, so exposed as in Poland. In the course of my long war experience, the conviction had grown within me that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dubious Chronicle | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

...Radio advertising has not assumed its responsibilities to the basics of honesty. . . . We must clean house. Only those articles which have special values should be permitted to extol those values...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Bughum | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

...Moscow, Izvestia attacked the Chungking Government as corrupt, defeatist and reaction ary. In San Francisco, Tung Pi-wu, Communist member of China's delegation to the security conference, issued a 31 -page memorandum extol ling the Chinese Communists and berating the Chungking Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Bid for Power | 6/18/1945 | See Source »

While we naturally are proud of our record in transporting the President, this information is offered not in an effort to extol the Jersey Central but to give you an appreciation of the unpublicized job done as a matter of special routine, year in and year out, by all the railroads who participate in transporting our Presidents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 21, 1945 | 5/21/1945 | See Source »

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