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...favorite U.S. authors: 1) Novelist Ernest Hemingway -"I have none of his love for bullfighting, and yet there is no American author I would rather meet." 2) Novelist John Steinbeck-"some of the stories in ... The Long Valley . . . equal or surpass the best tales of Chekhov." 3) Crimester Dashiell Hammett-"I regard his Red Harvest as a remarkable achievement, the last word in atrocity, cynicism and horror." 4) Novelist William Faulkner - "perhaps the most important" U.S. writer, "essentially, powerfully and in the full sense of the word, a Protestant...
Thus, on recent occasions, John L. Lewis has bludgeoned Chairman William Hammett Davis and his War Labor Board members. The rest of the time Lewis has contemptuously refused to recognize WLB's existence...
...quietude to the fact that for so long he preached in Japanese only. His favorite relaxation is sea bathing, equipped with an umbrella and a book. He wades through the breakers, then floats and reads with his umbrella against the sun. The book may be Plato or Dashiell Hammett. The exercise has helped him keep fit, at 68, for more of the diplomacy that, in his four years as Episcopal Presiding Bishop, has drawn complaints neither from high churchmen on the right nor from low churchmen on the left...
During the year: > Many writers, some despairing of interpreting war during a war, found themselves in uniform. Among them: Novelists James Gould Cozzens, Julian Green, Dashiell Hammett, Eric Knight, F. Van Wyck Mason; Playwrights Sidney Kingsley, Thornton Wilder, Laurence Stallings, William Saroyan; Poets Christopher La Farge, Karl Jay Shapiro, Harry Brown; ex-New Yorkers John Cheever, Geoffrey Hellman, Edward Newhouse; Autobiographer Vincent Sheean; Historian Samuel Eliot Morison; Newshawks Jimmy Cannon, Marion Hargrove, Hartzell Spence...
...hour, with a few soft spots. Veronica Lake's special talents give inappropriate energy to a somewhat vapid role. Alan Ladd is really the whole picture. With expert writing, direction and a very solid cast working to dilute him, Ladd makes Beaumont come close to the character that Hammett had in mind-an admirable, minor-league Machiavelli...