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Lord Haw-Haw himself-who never answered to that name-guarded his incognito. But last year, his effectiveness reduced as the war grew progressively less phony, he decided to tell all in a pseudo-philosophical autobiography. Haw-Haw's dubious masterwork has had small sale in Germany, none in Great Britain and the U. S. Last week, borne to the U. S. by ace Radio Correspondent William L. Shirer, top-flight newshawk for CBS, a copy of Haw-Haw's apologia turned up in CBS' Manhattan offices...
...orthodox but readable statement of Marxism in English was occasioning grave concern to the Agitprop (the Party's propaganda bureau) when Evelyn John St. Loe Strachey appeared, like a Red Moses, to make a path for the intellectual children of Israel through the Red Sea. His masterwork, The Coming Struggle for Power, made him the most important popularizer of Marxism outside Russia...
...friend. It occurred at a Sunday night supper; by the following morning Irna was hotfooting it for Chicago. She got her first job in Chicago as an actress with station WGN. Within a few months she was busy writing and acting in her first and almost interminable masterwork, Painted Dreams. Irna continued to turn out Painted Dreams until 1932, when WGN refused an offer to sell it to a national network. In a huff, Irna quit the station, filed suit to reclaim her drama, went to work for NBC. Still undetermined, after eight years in the courts, is the ownership...
...film is less than that--it is a documentary masterwork, but it is not quite the call to militant action which the paper "Grapes" sounds. Casy's talkative moments are fewer, and though John Carradine acts him to a T, the preacher is a less significant figure in consequence. Ma Joad grows in stature in the movie at Casy's expense; the courage and family unity which she symbolizes replace his message as the central theme...
...writing The Thibaults, taciturn, 58-year-old Roger Martin du Card, then almost unknown, won the 1937 Nobel surprise. With this much of his masterwork before them, U. S. readers may well feel that the award was justified...