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...Wolfe on the last page of his last novel - You Can't Go Home Again - "something has spoken in the night, and told me that I shall die, I know not where." Wolfe died in Baltimore in 1938. He was 37. He had published two long novels, Look Homeward, Angel (1929) and Of Time and the River (1935). Then as if in premonition of his death, Wolfe began to write so furiously that he became the first U. S. writer to leave two complete posthumous novels in the hands of his publisher. They were two of the longest...
...Elwood went back to normal, it was plain that what politicians and writers thought of the speech meant less than what was thought of it in the homeward-bound cars that were fanning out over the highways. The talk that counted was the talk that went on behind the golden headlights that danced over the white pavements - the talk of the crowd, of people who were a long way from Washington, a long way from editorial offices, the crowd that rose to a challenge, the crowd that had never heard of the decline of western civilization and would...
This German-held Paris, despite the gradual homeward trickle of refugees, seemed like a city walking in its sleep. Nazis behaved as if Parisians simply did not exist. Paris' honeymoon with her conquerors was over...
...angry man, slashing, jabbing, scolding with picturesque spleen, his enemies would have made short work of him. He was much more. In an atmosphere saturated with alien intellectual influences, he remained steadfastly and intelligently native. While most U. S. writers sighed for Europe, he looked resolutely and fondly homeward. He was a cultural nationalist before his contemporaries had thought up the term. And like most pioneers, he was a little too forthright, a little too blunt, a little funny...
...Homeward from Genoa this week steamed the U. S. Lines' Manhattan. Pack jammed aboard her were 2,000 U. S. refugees fleeing from the wrath to come. They had paid $200 to $360 for their passages, were glad indeed to get space in crowded cabins or cots in the ship's palm court, grand salon, playroom, gymnasium, post office. Among the passengers were: > Forty dogs, whose accommodations included artificial tree trunks. > New York Timesman Harold Denny's wife and her dog, which understands Russian only; beauteous Mrs. Eric Sevareid, wife of CBS's Paris correspondent...