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Probably no modern work of history or fiction ranks as such a thorough, lucid, conclusive payoff on war as Verdun. This it is, not through a mere presentation of the sickening personal truth of "combat" (Remarque) nor through scorn and excitement crystallized in art (Hemingway), but through a grownup, sympathetic intelligence. If Romains goes on so, he will have given the first grand perspective on war since War and Peace...
Ready were the traditional red stockings that every Roosevelt, child and grownup, hangs over the fireplace in the President's second-floor bedroom. On Christmas Eve, after the children have kissed "Grandpa" good night, the elder Roosevelts stuff the stockings. Into each toe goes a toothbrush, a nailfile, a gaily wrapped bar of soap-vestiges of a custom that Mrs. Roosevelt began, as a sugar-coated reminder of cleanliness, when her six-footer sons were little tads...
...ways. By that time Larry has uncovered practically everything the U. S. has to show in the way of juvenile talent from miniature tap dancers to a 14-year-old coloratura soprano (Linda Ware), who is good enough to sing with Walter Damrosch (Walter Damrosch). And in the meantime grownup Bing Crosby has had a chance to sing as well as they have ever been sung such Gus Edwards classics as School Days, Sunbonnet Sue, In My Merry Oldsmobile and By the Light of the Silvery Moon, any of which sounds fresh enough to step into the 1939 hit parade...
Like Clarence Day's Life With Father, Bertha Damon's portrait is more serious than the title suggests. It serves in fact as an excellent psychological document, illustrating in vivid elementary terms how childhood influences act on adult character. For as a grownup Author Damon has reacted against the Thoreau-inspired austerity of her grandmother's house and diet by building and remodeling houses, collecting cookbooks. Reacting against Grandma's taboo on pets, Author Damon makes a hobby of cocker puppies and little pigs...
Many U. S. periodicals are published for adults and a few for children, but hardly any specifically address the in-between group called Youth. Reason: Youth likes to be treated as if it were grownup. Last week, however, there appeared on U. S. newsstands a new magazine called Youth Today, designed to take advantage of Youth's depression-born self-consciousness...