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...bombs, red fire, a cheering crowd of 75,000 welcomers at Grand Rapids. ("Like so many Americans, I have spent a good deal of my life in close contact with Grand Rapids furniture.") There the Nominee spent the night at the home of Senator Arthur Vandenberg. Thence he turned homeward across Indiana...
...this little book the author of "Look Homeward Angel" and "Of Time and the River" tells us about his literary method. He writes and writes and writes, he makes lists of rivers, towns, railways, names, he burns with the desire to set down on paper the secrets of America. Sometimes it seems as though he just has to write, other times he can't write to save him. When he gets so many million words done he and Max Perkins sit down and make a book out of them...
From Buffalo, Governor Landon turned homeward, made 15 rear-platform appearances in Illinois and Missouri. In Springfield he paid a duty call at the tomb of Abraham Lincoln. In St. Louis he obeyed another political tradition by publicly kissing a baby, 17-month old Joyce Rushing, daughter of a Carterville, Ill. barber, and exclaiming, "My, what a fine, fat baby...
...STORY or A NOVEL-Thomas Wolfe -Scribner ($1.50). How Author Wolfe wrote Look Homeward, Angel, Of Time and the River and several others not yet published. An exceeding bitter cry that may throw a scare into prospective novelists...
Like Thomas Wolfe (Look Homeward, Angel; Of Time and the River), Saroyan writes about himself, but in a more Whitmanesque vein: he is large, he contains multitudes. Touted as a short-story writer, mostly because his "stones" are written in prose, he seldom sets down a formal narrative. Most of his "stories" are poetic shouts-no less lyrical for being written in street-language with many a cuss word-swelling the chorus of a "Song of Myself." It might almost have been Saroyan who wrote...