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...Istanbul a friend of the Nazis was missing. Thomas Ludwig (or Lewine), Gestapo agent and "honorary Aryan," had a trap door in front of his desk which, in his heyday, he used to snap open by means of a concealed button. Said he: "In this work [spying] one must be prepared to spirit away undesirable elements without a trace." Last week Ludwig had vanished without a trace...
Wells's fans were ravished by this williwaw of invective. Said British Reviewer Michael Foot: "Wells has produced a book rich with the flavor of Paris in the heyday of the terror. It might even have been written by the immortal Marat, whom Wells himself, in his Outline of History, has rescued from the clutches of defamation. From cover to cover it is angry, explosive and morally indignant. It revives all that is best in the great tradition of English invective." Others were reminded of a line from T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land: "Voices singing...
...have a taste of the ballet. They may very likely enjoy it, for they will see nothing dainty or esthetical in Fancy Free, the surprise hit of Manhattan's booming ballet season. It is as lusty a piece of knockabout vaudeville as could be found in the hey-heyday of B. F. Keith...
...HEYDAY OF A WIZARD -Jean Burton-Knopf...
There are over 1,210,000 of you reading TIME each week now. That is more than seven times as many women readers as that famous favorite among women, Godey's Lady's Book, ever had in its heyday...