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Noteworthy reactions to hulking, humorless Novelist Theodore Dreiser's damnation of the British war effort, in which he said he preferred Nazi rule in Britain to rule by "aristocratic, horse-riding snobs": Pearl Buck, Clifton Fadiman, Rex Stout, F.P.A., other members of the Writers' War Board said the Dreiser remarks were "sabotage," possibly "treasonable," observed "our enemies would pay him well for his disservice to our country's cause." And from London piped George Bernard Shaw: "To say that Dreiser's comments regarding the war are furiously inaccurate is only to say that they are like...
Meantime the "Lidice Lives" Committee of the Writers' War Board (executive chairman: Fadiman) got a little tap on the knuckles from Premier Adélard Godbout of Quebec. The town of Frelighsburg, Quebec, announced the committee, would change its name to Lidice. But Frelighsburg had not been informed, and shortly Premier Godbout announced simply: Frelighsburg will be Frelighsburg and Clifton Fadiman will be Clifton Fadiman...
...Yorker Critic Clifton Fadiman ("It seduces us to rest on the oars of our own moral superiority...
Keep 'em Rolling had a big-name debut. Its theme ditty, composed for the occasion by Rodgers & Hart, came bugle-like from the lips of musical comedy's forceful Ethel Merman. Master of Ceremonies Clifton Fadiman (with a cute script) kept the program rolling. He discussed the spider situation with a Cleveland professor who has made a specialty of extracting spider silk direct from the producer for cross hairs in range finders. He introduced, as "the nation's No. 1 No man," Priorities Chief Donald M. Nelson, and Mr. Nelson told the nation why. For drama, Maurice...
...years the "great American novel" has been the great unattainable of our native cultural scene. Periodically Hemingway of Steinbeck or another of the leading story-tellers contrives something that looks like it to the publisher, but Clifton Fadiman and the other gentlemen who seem to have the last word in the matter can always find something missing--that last straw of greatness which would break down their resistance and start the dancing in the literary lanes and book fairs of the nation. But though "Grapes" and "Bell" both came close to forcing reluctant admissions of their right to the fabulous...