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...Mortal fear of most U. S. big-business men is Federal control. In the New Deal economy, insurance companies and investment trusts are becoming conspicuous as the only big holders of investment capital not under regulation by the U. S. Investment trusts' turn is coming soon if Congress adopts the recommendations now being readied by SEC. And the unwilling march of insurance to Federal regulation may have begun last week when TNEC (monopoly committee) reopened its insurance hearings...
...shippers are not in business for their health. Finland is fighting for its life; some observers think, for more lives than its own. Last week U. S. shippers were sending to Finland's mortal enemy, Soviet Russia, copper, wheat, oil, other materials. They indicated that shipments would continue so long as the State Department allows (see p. 69). Meanwhile, last week, the Congress of the U. S. tepidly gestured its sympathy for beleaguered Finland...
WALK LIKE A MORTAL-Don Wickenden-Morrow...
Walk Like a Mortal is the story of ten quietly crucial months, some year in the '20s, in the life of 17-year-old Gabe Mackenzie. It gains no little through a fact sparsely precedented in U. S. fictional adolescence : that its hero is neither a Harold Teen, a neuraesthete, nor a tragicomic boob, but merely an intelligent, quite normal high school student...
...best, though, good literature must approach absolute perception, fused with absolute statement. Walk Like a Mortal, engaging though it is, cannot and wisely does not try to lay claim to either. Its perceptions are safe and uncritical. It is nicely written: yet it would be hard to find a definitive sentence in it. In appraisal of talented Dan Wickenden it is instructive to recall another book by and about another young man; James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (see p. 86). Joyce could never have written Walk Like a Mortal: even...