Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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CANNIBAL QUEST-Gordon Sinclair-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Canadian journalist on the loose in Mandalay, Bali, Baluchistan...
Nicknamed by newspapers "The Sage of Potato Hill," and the "Kansas Diogenes," Ed Howe was not, as such titles suggested, a small-town Jeremiah, muttering philippic nonsense. His autobiography, Plain People, Heywood Broun called "prose of a sort to make every other journalist bite his nails with envy." The Saturday Review of Literature referred to him as the "spiritual legatee of Benjamin Franklin" because of his curt adages and his printshop background. Intelligent Kansans whom Ed Howe last week stopped rebuking for the first time in 60 years approve of him. At a dinner on the 50th anniversary...
...Spectator, became literary editor, eight months later went to China. Five months after he got back he was off again to Brazil. After finishing Brazilian Adventure he went to Manchuria as correspondent for the London Times, returned to London to find the town talking about his book. First-rate journalist, Peter Fleming at 26 has no illusions of grandeur about what he writes, obviously enjoys writing it. Typical of him is the cable he sent home from Pará, at the end of his Brazilian adventure: ARRIVE ENGLAND TWENTY-THIRD NO MAIL MONEY LUGGAGE OR REGRETS. Brazilian Adventure...
PROMETHEANS-Burton Rascoe-Putnam ($2.75). Burton Rascoe is a journalist in search of literature. An epitome of restless 20th Century curiosity and enthusiasm, he has been a familiar U. S. literary figure for over ten years, has written masses of literary chatter but only three books. Prometheans is his fourth. Ever since he left Chicago (in 1920) he has been tinkering away at a novel which Author Branch Cabell calls "the most famous American novel never yet published." But Rascoe has been too busy nosing around among other people's works to finish his own. Prometheans, like his Titans...
DESPITE all the efforts of Adolf Hitler and Samuel Crowther, some people still seem to believe in the possibility of internationalism. One of these misguided seuls is David Mitrany, an English journalist and publicist, whose red beard and penetrating mind were the envy of Winthrop House and the Government Department for the two years recently spent in our midst. In "The Progress of International Government", his Dodge lectures at Yale, Mr. Mitrany gives an interesting historical and philosophical view of internationalism...