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...airlines are certain that the keystone of that U.S. policy should be wide-open competition on foreign routes. Quietly but persistently, Pan American's famed president, Juan Terry Trippe, has opposed this stand, urging instead the "chosen instrument" policy (TIME, Nov. 8). This week, pinko Author Matthew Josephson (The Robber Barons, The Politicos) entered the controversy with a new book, Empire of the Air (Harcourt, Brace; $3). In trying to decide between the two views, Author Josephson has adopted a historical method: to determine whether competition or the "chosen instrument" is better, first study how the methods have worked...
Victor Hugo, by Matthew Josephson ($3-50), filled - with 514 eminently readable pages-a gaping hole in U.S. biographical writing...
VICTOR HUGO-Matthew Josephson-Doubleday, Doran...
With this book Matthew Josephson fills a gaping hole in U.S. biographical writing (hitherto there has been no good life of Victor Hugo) and adds another superb study to his series of great French literary figures (Zola and His Time, Jean-Jacques Rousseau). In the U.S. the great champions of democracy have always been practical politicians. In France they have usually been literati...
...death, she became pianist in an all-female band. Three years later she stopped a Broadway show, Sing Out the News, with her sultry rendition of Franklin D. Roosevelt Jones. But her break came with a chance to fill in for ailing Blues Singer Ida Cox at Barney Josephson's downtown Café Society, a Manhattan Mecca for jazz connoisseurs. Result: Hazel Scott has been entertaining Café Society audiences ever since. Two years ago Showman Josephson opened a Cafe Society Uptown to house her art with greater swank, now finds it packed nightly with Scott fans: socialites, Broadway...