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...although U. S. fortunes in general have risen faster, gone higher, dropped further, created more spectacular characters and lurid scandals than other countries can show, U. S. novelists by & large have stood by, left the field to angry muckrakers, uncritical official biographers, or to such able left-wing analysts as Matthew Josephson (The Robber Barons) or Lewis Corey (The House of Morgan...
...prestige and solidity, * but it is certainly not so in imagination. A report from Moscow's Laboratory for Aviation Medicine last week reminded observers of the conditioning courses for newborn and unborn babies described in Brave New World, Novelist Aldous Huxley's sarcastic peek into a lurid future. The possibility raised in Moscow by the experiments of Professor V. V. Streltsov was that of training young Reds to become stratosphere pilots who would thrive in the tenuous upper air. have no need of oxygen from tanks...
Against the lurid background of such facts as these Harold Denny wrote...
...specialist in the private life of Adolf Hitler is the lurid daily Paris-Soir, which last month published details of the Führer's supposed romance with the old-time cinemactress, Pola Negri (TIME, April 26). This week Paris-Soir was at it again, this time with a still more lurid story of what has become of Pola Negri's reputed predecessor, muscular, mountain-climbing Leni Riefenstahl. During the Olympic Games last year Cinemactress Riefenstahl had complete charge of all official newsreel pictures, was expected to make at least one full-length film. 20 short features...
...Stalin gets results, and soon Moscow presses were saying that Yagoda never was his creature, that the Dictator never really liked him, long wanted to be rid of him. More and more lurid stories followed, with Comrade Yagoda swelling in horrid infamy until it appeared that Ogpu evenings under him resembled Roman Saturnalia. The picture of debauchery was made to look a trifle brighter by suggesting that the Ogpu Chief's most depraved carousing and seductions came toward the close of his public career when he realized that jail was but a few jumps ahead. Item: the State press...