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...praise of the unprofessional A. F. S., who number over 25,000 men and 5,000 women. "When you consider that most of these fellows have never been near a bigger fire than their sitting-room grate, they are a miracle," boomed a Brigade officer. "Our men are hardbitten, experienced fighters and they trust the A. F. S. boys to the hilt...
...eyes of Stalinist true believers is Trotskyism, whose heresiarch is Leon Trotsky, now an exile in Mexico. Trotsky's heretical sect styles itself the Fourth International (5,000 communicants). Until last week its U. S. congregation was the Socialist Workers Party (membership: 2,000), of which hardbitten James Patrick Cannon and full-lipped Max Schachtman were co-pastors...
Norway's patriarch of letters, hardbitten Nobel Prizewinner (Growth of the Soil) Knut Hamsun, 80, turned on his Government for continuing to oppose the Nazi invasion. Cried Writer Hamsun in Oslo: "The Government ordered mobilization, then fled. Norwegian youths now die for that 'Government...
DILDO CAY-Nelson Hayes-Houghton Miff I in ($2.50). West Indies novel, by a 36-year-old, French-born, U. S.-educated Connecticut businessman. Laid on a tiny windswept island (composite of Turks & Caicos), the story twists around the romance between the scion of a hardbitten, salt-making family and a disillusioned blonde who arrives from Bermuda to keep books. Hemingwaywardness bristles on the story like barnacles. But it has one claim to originality: Author Hayes's ingenuity in getting Adrian and Carol alone together on the island. Adrian's father drowns; his mother dies of neurosis...
Lively issue in Wall Street's adjustment to New Deal business standards is the scrap over competitive bidding for utility securities issues. Month ago hardbitten Chairman Floyd L. Carlisle of Consolidated Edison Co. of New York (which has sold $377,982,000 worth of securities since November 1935 through Morgan Stanley & Co.) took a step which would protect him from the future criticism of disgruntled stockholders who may favor competitive bidding. To his 128,791 stockholders he mailed a questionnaire...