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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fast-developing changes in markets and technology in the U.S. have brought some surprising changes in unions. John L. Lewis, who once could stir up a national crisis with a strike threat from his mighty, 600,000-strong Mine Workers union, is now the boss of a union shrunk to 200,000, and seldom gives cause for alarm. In steel the white-collar percentage in the working force has doubled since 1942 to 18% or 20%, will go up to 33% by 1970. In chemicals it rose from 24% in 1947 to 36% in 1957, will...
...LADY L. (215 pp.)-Romain Gary-Simon & Schuster...
There are few genuine anarchists around these days, but those of them who happen to read Lady L. will be as infuriated as if a king, marked for assassination, caught their homemade bomb and threw it back at them. French Novelist Romain Gary, who wrote one of the best and most serious novels of 1958 in The Roots of Heaven, has turned out what is bound to be one of the most urbanely amusing novels of 1959. The Roots of Heaven was a poetic last stand in the name of freedom. Lady L. is for freedom, too-freedom from people...
...Lady L. is a literary confection, as light and spry, and in its way as corny, as if it did not have an idea between its covers. The lady of the title is one of the last grandes dames of England. One of her grandsons is a director of the Bank of England, another will soon be a bishop, and a third is a Cabinet minister-although she can remember when a politician at her dinner table would have been as unthinkable as an American. She is 80 on the day the book opens, but she is still so beautiful...
...Pygmalion Treatment. To his mounting horror, Sir Percy learns that Lady L. was born Annette Boudin, the daughter of a Paris washerwoman. In due course, like most of the girls of her street, she became a prostitute. But she was beautiful, and soon the top banana of French anarchists. Armand Denis, gave her the Pygmalion treatment. He made a lady of her so that she could play with the very rich and arrange burglaries to finance Armand's assassination plans for the good of humanity...