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...Full-bosomed, oversized nudes, painted on the Liberators' noses by the crews, leered down at the Hainan airdrome, barracks, warehouses and oil-storage tanks where the bombs fell. No defending fighters appeared, ack-ack was weak and inaccurate, and the bombers had suffered no losses when they turned homeward from the blazing targets...
...father of the late novelist Thomas Clayton Wolfe (Look Homeward, Angel; Of Time and the River) was a stonecutter of great rhetorical influence on his son. Echoes of his surging speech resound through Wolfe's novels. But the novelist's mother, a sinewy woman still living at the age of 83 in Asheville, N.C., was probably an even greater influence. She is a positive personality. "You told me," her son once wrote to Julia Elizabeth Wolfe, "that three great Americans had their birthday in February, and when I looked puzzled you said that you were the third." Readers...
...psychological tide turned. For Mrs. Wolfe that year meant the decline of real-estate values; for her son, publication of Look Homeward, Angel. Wolfe's thinly disguised Asheville portraits set the whole town buzzing with curiosity and indignation. Mrs. Wolfe sat up reading the book until 3 a.m. "Sometimes I'd laugh," she said, "but again I'd cry. It was ridiculous in some ways, but I didn't look upon it as being anything serious." Her daughter Mabel thought otherwise. "I understand," she said, "that Tom has written up the family and the people...
...Look Homeward Angels. Close to the contemporary U.S. were two roughly similar books by two totally dissimilar writers - Novelist Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' best-selling Cross Creek ($2.50), Essayist E. B. White's sane and salty One Man's Meat ($2.50). Ludwig Bemelmans, a first-rate light storyteller with a surpassing light style, criticized human foibles with a sweet smile in I Love You, I Love You, I Love You ($2.50). But it remained for Humorist James Thurber, reporting on A.D. 1942!s general state of affairs in My World - And Welcome...
From Teheran came young Jim Aldridge, who joined our Cairo staff a week before Montgomery's attack-but who will soon be on his way to Moscow to take Walter Graebner's place there. And from Russia came Graebner himself, homeward bound to report what he learned during his five months with the Russian armies. He stopped over in Egypt to bring home with him the first-hand feel of the fighting-got a very authentic six-days' sample bouncing across the desert with the British troops all the way past Tobruk-dodging Nazi bombs with them...