Word: gunthers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Inside Europe, first published three years ago and since continuously revised to keep up-to-date, Correspondent John Gunther wrote a swift, popular handbook of present-day Europe. His system was to take a country, give the lives, habits and personalities of its leaders, put in a few choice anecdotes, make a few sound generalizations about the people, sketch in historical background, retell the nation's most recent and dramatic episodes and then move on to the next country, where the same process was repeated...
...Inside Asia,* published this week, Author Gunther tries out this technique on Asia and produces much the same kind of book: a lively, gossipy, not too profound but interesting encyclopedia of present-day Asia. Jumping-off place for Inside Europe was Germany; Inside Asia begins with Japan. From Japan, the book takes the reader to Manchukuo, makes a brief stopover in Siberia, moves on to China and then, going south and east by way of the Philippines and The Netherlands Indies, rounds the Malay Peninsula for a look at Siam, India, Afghanistan, Tibet, Nepal, Burma, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Trans...
...excellent memoirs, published last week, showed that perhaps he had missed his calling again. A competent newspaperman, he might have been a better novelist. The light he sheds on world affairs flickers somewhat dimly beside the flashes of Duranty, Gunther, Sheean; but for character vignettes and earthy episodes, he beats the lot. Examples: >The headmaster of his grammar school in Gorcum, Holland, was a tightlipped, frog-eyed, wrinkled Huguenot with the curling fingernails of a Chinese mandarin and the literal severity of a Spanish Inquisitor. He beat a boy to unconsciousness for writing the phrase "snowflakes fluttering from a pitilessly...
...George S. Kaufman & Moss Hart). After getting almost as much ballyhoo as a World's Fair, Kaufman & Hart's monster "spectacle" opened last week with a cast of 250. Against the animated background of an Ohio town, it tells the life-story of Martin and Irma Gunther (Fredric March and Florence Eldridge) from their arrival as immigrants, through joys and sorrows, poverty and wealth, until Martin is killed by a Nazi Bund while trying to prevent his grandson from joining...
Touchiest subjects are political disputes, but most clubs have approved forthright political studies like Vincent Sheean's Personal History, John Gunther's enlightening Inside Europe. Club programs show that much emphasis is placed on light romances. But in the last two years almost every important club in the U. S. has endorsed Van Wyck Brooks's The Flowering of New England, which most U. S. critics would place near the top in any list of U. S. post-War works of literature...