Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feels that it will take him quite a while to reply to everybody. "The letters are so very cordial," he says. "It does show that America is willing to help us if we can supply something they want." Three American authors, however, supplied something that Editor Hall wanted: three first-rate manuscripts. Said Hall: "It shows the class of readers TIME must have. They were exactly what we wanted: a modern setting with traditional methods, clean and dignified, no sex and no brutality -just sheer deduction in the grand tradition...
...chamber was deathly still as the clerk began the roll call. The first, and critical, vote was on the reservation proposed by Senator Wherry, which would insist that the U.S. had no obligation to furnish arms to its new partners. It was defeated, 74 to 21. Two other reservations were knocked down. Then, by a majority of 82 to 13, the Senate approved the North Atlantic Treaty...
Most of the chase takes place on wheels. In the first automobile is a sleek stickup man (Patric Knowles) who has absconded with a fat U.S. Army payroll. Close behind come an Army lieutenant (Robert Mitchum) and a mysterious young woman (Jane Greer). In the third car is Mitchum's superior officer (William Bendix). Trailing far behind at a leisurely Latin pace is Ramon Novarro, a sly Mexican police official who, like the audience, is trying his best to figure out the turns & twists of the plot...
...finds himself worrying about the President's health. After the Boss dies, there is still plenty to do: a trip to Europe to wheedle Göring into revealing the hiding place of the priceless collections of stolen art; a dash back to the U.S. to watch the first atom bomb billow up in the New Mexico sky; a mission to Nürnberg to help convict the war criminals...
...critics, who have scoffed at the first nine Lanny books for their cardboard characterizations and their comic-strip simplifications of history, will hardly think better of No. 10. Such objections will continue to leave Upton Sinclair unmoved, since he has magnificently succeeded in what, after all, he set out to do: to write Upton Sinclair's version of history and get millions of people to read it. (Lanny, incidentally, his faith in the future undimmed, decides to devote himself henceforth to humanitarian journalism...