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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...probings into the rise of U. S. civilization as exemplified by In Old Chicago, Young Mr. Lincoln. The current example is notable chiefly for its running time (one hour and 43 minutes), a non-stop foot race between Henry Fonda and three pursuing Indians apparently down the entire length of Mohawk Valley, and the dogged persistence with which early American settlers plant wheat every spring for the Indians to burn every autumn. Since one burning wheat field looks much like another burning wheat field, this seasonal firing gets monotonous as the years roll...
...after four minutes of the second period. The first one was on a play which came within an ace of being called back for an offside, while the second was on the most beautiful shot of the afternoon, a whistling liner which traveled a quarter of the length of the field and just snaked into the the net under the crossbar...
Unfortunately there was a strong ad- verse tide that day which lengthened the race by two minutes. When the oarsman had rowed for the usual length of time, his old reflex went into effect and he stopped--despite the fact that there were still two minutes...
...certain sinister essences of the American South. In the later pages there is a slow withering of gaiety, of wit, of external interest, a dark and deepening absorption in the study of Buddhism, of the Bible in Hebrew, of the nature of reality, and of death, which at length is no longer feared. The journal ends in the aftermath of a gentle and casual dream: "Perhaps we shall be talking just like that when we awake from this life. Who could say that all our waking life was not a dream...
Until last March, U. S. readers had never seen an unexpurgated, full-length translation of Hitler's Mein Kampf. Then, simultaneously, two U. S. editions appeared. Publishers Houghton Mifflin,* who owned the copyright, sued Stackpole Sons for piracy. Stackpole refused to haul down their jolly roger. Said they: Hitler's copyright was illegal. Besides, said Stackpole, no royalties from their edition would go to Author Hitler. After preliminary legal skirmishes, a District Court last summer granted a temporary injunction, restraining Stackpole from selling their edition...