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Even the journalism schools could not agree. Missouri's Dean Frank Luther Mott sided with the A.N.P.A.; Ralph L. Crosman of the University of Colorado leaned towards the Guild. As for working newsmen, few were likely to yearn for professional status if it meant no overtime...
...record of nearly three centuries of U.S. bestsellers. It is doubtful if there has ever been assembled any where such a comprehensive list of such complete irrationality, so many ridiculous scenes and characters, so much solemn nonsense and so much moralizing, posturing and ham acting, as in Frank Luther Mott's account of the books which the U.S. public has purchased by the millions...
...Author Mott, dean of the University of Missouri's famed journalism school, is not unduly critical of this rubbish. Caught up in the details of exaggerated advertising claims, dubious publishing records and the secretiveness of publishing houses about their sales figures, Dean Mott spends most of his book in an overly conscientious attempt to get at the exact facts about the 324 books he classes as bestsellers* (he excepts Bibles, textbooks, cookbooks). His book's great value is that it is the first thorough exploration into a field which seems much more mysterious the more it is looked...
Amber Over Tokyo. Mott asks, but cannot answer, why the field of popular fiction has been so narrow. There have been no lastingly popular American novels on industry, the clipper ships, the rail roads, the Oregon Trail, immigration, the discovery of gold or oil, the movies, radio, or the New Deal. Readers could get good, solidly based historical novels on the fall of Rome or the battle of Waterloo, but not of the Lewis & Clark expedition...
Methodist Layman Mott is the grand old man of Protestant world unity, has been a leader in international religious movements since he helped organize the World's Student Christian Federation in 1895. In World War I he headed the Y.M.C.A.'s canteen and prisoner-of-war work. Last week, in retirement at Orlando, Fla., he was "mildly astonished." Scandinavia's left-wing newspapers were not only astonished but angry: they had hoped the prize would go to Madame Alexandra Kollontay, 74, ex-Soviet Ambassador to Stockholm, who helped arrange the 1944 peace between Russia and Finland...