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Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center, New York City; $7.50). Says Aldous Huxley in the foreword...
...foreword, H. L. Mencken (who as a newspaperman has witnessed nine excutions) says that By the Neck was not planned as a "book of horrors," but to show how men behave in the face of "dreadful doom." He believes his brother's book is the first attempt to bring together "a mass of objective data relating to an important phenomenon of civilization...
...foreword, Critic Wilson states his belief that The Last Tycoon is Fitzgerald's "most mature" work, that Hero Monroe Stahr was the most thoroughly explored of all Fitzgerald characters. Stahr was an executive and creative genius of motion pictures, a "boy wonder" at 22, later boss and three-quarters owner of a big studio. Under him the movies reached a sort of golden age. After him the industry grew too complicated for one man to keep his hand on everything in a studio. Stahr "had flown up very high to see, on strong wings, when he was young...
...foreword to this book, says Fritz Thyssen, onetime rich and powerful head of the German steel trust, onetime National Socialist party member, onetime financial backer of Adolf Hitler, now probably a corpse or a haggard prisoner of the Gestapo. I Paid Hitler reveals Thyssen as one of history's rankest examples of The Man Who Was Wrong...
...eloquent foreword British Laborite (pottery-maker and single taxer) Wedgwood also gives some shrewd reasons why he and Columbia University's Allan Nevins thought such an anthology worth compiling: "Though all my Labour colleagues regard Socialism as merely a stage on the road to that economic freedom which is our common goal, yet dependence on the State ever grows. A new master replaces the old masters. The mountain top is obscured, and those who have no vision tend to become willing cogs in the new bureaucratic machine. This machine . . . becomes a god whom it is blasphemy to criticize...