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...quarterly, The American Scholar, is going to throw an "autograph-party" for his chick in his home town (Cleveland) and will speak in its defense on a radio program named Books on Trial. Coward-McCann's bird has already been taken under the hot wing of the Literary Guild, thus assuring Britain's Old Mother Goudge (who wrote the best-selling Green Dolphin Street) a minimum first printing of 615,000 copies...
...Never Can Tell (by Bernard Shaw; produced by the Theatre Guild in association with Alfred Fischer) can't quite hide its late igth Century look or its early G.B.S. grin. A scrambly farce, it treats of modern-minded matrons separated from their husbands, children trying to track down their father, a penniless dentist wooing a would-be unromantic miss, a wise waiter whose son is a distinguished barrister. Shaw called You Never Can Tell a potboiler, and few-even of his admirers -would call it art. But though Shaw may seem to be writing down in it, actually...
...Great Mischief for March. That leaves the blame to be split four ways among B.O.M. Judges Henry Seidel Canby, Dorothy Canfield, Clifton Fadiman and John P. Marquand. They have bought a salable name (Miss Pinckney's earlier Three O'Clock Dinner was a bestselling Literary Guild choice, is now being filmed) but not a satisfactory novel. Apparently unabashed, they compound their great mischief by bracketing Miss Pinckney with Novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne. This tiresome little witch story, which flirts scrappily with the question of good & evil, is as far from the intent and purpose of Moralist Hawthorne...
...would go on, in drastically different form, under diminutive Clinton D. McKinnon, a shrewd newsman who pyramided a string of Southern California throwaway shopping papers into the million-dollar San Diego Journal (which he recently sold). He offered to take over from Field if the C.I.O. American Newspaper Guild unit would abandon its tough PM contract and meet his tough terms, including the right to hire & fire at will for three months. The reported price tag: $300,000 for plant & equipment...
Department underlings had proposed Harry Martin of Memphis, anti-Communist president of the C.I.O. American Newspaper Guild, as a delegate. But he had been turned down by higher-ups as a radical. His sin: in 1938 he had given a small sum to the Southern Conference for Human Welfare. Martin told the New York Herald Tribune that his name "had been taken to the top three times but that the answer was 'no' each time...