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...John Lehmann, editor of New Writing, while deploring the possible influence of a "spiritual emptiness" which he finds in today's American literature, predicted for the U.S. "a new generation of writers who are determined to find positive values not in the exploded myth of endless industrial progress, but in the heart and soul...
...Trapps sang and in 1937 Soprano Lotte Lehmann heard them at it. She insisted that they enter choral competition at the Salzburg Festival that year. They took first prize, but never sang at Salzburg again; ardently Roman Catholic and ardently anti-Nazi, they left home just before Hitler seized Austria...
Colonel Gordon E. Textor, a West Pointer with no newspaper experience, started the shakeup. The way it was done left the Zeitung staff dizzy. First Textor fired Foreign Editor Hans Lehmann for pro-Nazi leanings, though Textor had refused to approve Lehmann's dismissal for the same reason only three months ago. When twelve other German staffers resigned in protest, Textor named Bruce Buttles, an ex-Christian Science Monitor reporter and a civilian employee of the Army, as Zeitung publisher...
...living authors have been deluged with the spate of homage which highbrow critics have loosed on I. Compton-Bur-nett. But as far as the general public is concerned, she might as well be dead-and not even her most passionate admirers (who include Elizabeth Bowen and Rosamund Lehmann) could fairly accuse the public of stupidity and ignorance. For all Compton-Burnett's novels (she has published eleven during the past 37 years) appear at first glance to be out of this world, artificial, aimless...
...Editor Lehmann believes that these 14 stories (which first appeared in his British little-magazine New Writing) prove "the dominating richness and vitality of French literature among the literatures of Europe." But U.S. readers are likely to feel that most of the richness is stylistic sheen, and the vitality only skin-deep...