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Curley is an orator with power in his voice reminiscent of William Jennings Bryan. After one of his court convictions, he shouted to a lecture hall jammed with adorers. "That isn't James Michael Curley they have lying in the gutter. It is you ... and you ... and you." As his...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grandeur That Was Boston Lost in Slums, Apathetic Suburbs, Brahmin Inertia as Leaders Wrangle Over Bribes in City Hall | 3/14/1947 | See Source »

In 1946, a year in which show business and politics have been intermingled to a point which would completely horrify both Rudolph Valentino and William Jennings Bryan, this cast of characters gives ICCASP a unique leverage on thousands of U.S. voters. Some men & women, whose every instinct rebels against the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Glamor Pusses | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

SALEM FRIGATE-(500 pp.)-John Jennings-Doubleday ($3).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Freedom of the Seas | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

Hard tack and chocolate fudge, manly bellows and girlish squeals are the ingredients of Salem Frigate, which scuds from Cape Ann to the Barbary Coast without a second's worry about the finer points of literary art and navigation. Author Jennings, who wrote 1939's best-selling Next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Freedom of the Seas | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

When a character begins to slow the plot, Author Jennings shoots him or gives him a fatal tumble from the to'gallants. Wandering around in the background-as though to remind the reader that life in those days was more than just tosspots and sea-chanteys-are Sammy Adams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Freedom of the Seas | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

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