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...past seven years, John has been exploring his own legend-spawning life, in an autobiography published piecemeal in Cyril Connolly's highbrow British magazine Horizon. The published fragments read sometimes like a sophisticated traveler's guidebook, sometimes like a recital of Important People I Have Known, sometimes like Major Hoople, sometimes like crumbs from Winston Churchill's table. But the mass of entertaining trivia is shot through with eloquence, wit, and an artist's imagery...
UNESCO, with all its highbrow conferences and talky committees, is missing the whole point, said Read. It seems to assume "that culture is a concrete material . . . bartered like butter or steel . . . already stored up in universities, libraries and museums, waiting, like corn in Egypt, to be distributed to the hungry masses...
When Ben Grauer was a cub announcer at NBC, back in 1930, he competed with ten other announcers for a program sponsored by Gobel's bologna. The other ten sounded very highbrow, but Ben got the job. "That's the man," the sponsor cried, "that's what I sell-baloney...
Novelist André Malraux, De Gaulle's highbrow pressagent, rang a tocsin of his own: he predicted that Maurice Thorez' Communist legions would soon launch a major offensive which might lead to civil war by April 15. Other alarms came from a less intellectual but intensely French quarter. In Paris, 5,000 midinettes, shivering in thin coats, protested against their dismissals by Paris dress houses (which were suffering a slump despite the New Look). Cried clothing union leader Alice Brisset: "Hardy measures are needed...
...author of this first novel is only 23, but his literary promise has already caused a flutter in Manhattan publishing circles. When Editor Cyril Connolly of England's highbrow Horizon visited the U.S. last year (TIME, Oct. 20), he noted with sad alarm...