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...Timers continued to grind out novels in 1943. John P. Marquand published So Little Time ($2.75), a sad, bland tale of a polished but warm-hearted literary hack whose success cost him his self-respect. Upton Sinclair's Wide Is the Gate ($3), his 63rd book, carried his almost legendary Lanny Budd through the corrupt vicissitudes of Europe between wars. Sinclair Lewis' Gideon Planish ($2.50), a withering blast at phony philanthropists and do-gooders, awoke pale memories of Elmer Gantry. With The Forest and the Fort ($2.50), Anthony Adverse's Hervey Allen hewed...
...running mate must be no political hack but a man of the same quality and character. Happily he is at hand. Eric A. Johnston, the most progressive president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in its history, who by his vision, breadth and ability has made an impression upon the world far beyond our borders...
...mountains commanding these valleys were the Germans, still in excellent positions to delay the Allied advance. Through the westernmost valley, before General Clark's Fifth Army, wound the Via Appia, most famous of all roads to Rome. Before the Eighth can think of Rome, it must hack up the Adriatic coast to Pescara...
...whole the play was well staged. A carpeted stage in the jungle scenes would have eliminated the undesirable stamping effect. Another hack of considerable magnitude was the handling of drum beats. According to stage directions, the drum is supposed to begin at the normal pulse rate of 72 beats per minute and should gradually accelerate to simulate a rising pulse. Instead, the rate was too slow at the beginning and too fast and irregular...
...customer who wanted to buy a case-lot had to pay more per bottle than the single-bottle price. In California police cars careened through the streets of Oakland and Berkeley in the best Volstead manner, chasing gangsters who had hijacked hooch ; in dry Charlotte, N.C. bell hops and hack drivers bootlegged moonshine from nearby wet counties. And in Washington OPA huffpuffed...