Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suggest that TIME's book reviewer, as well as Novelist Burt, acquaint himself with Montana geography. Pumpkin Creek, the correct name for which is Pumpkin Vine Creek, does not join Powder River! This creek flows into the Tongue River approximately ten miles south of the confluence of the Tongue and Yellowstone Rivers...
Most U. S. citizens know that Hitler painted water colors, but they do not know that Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, Minister for Propaganda & Public Enlightenment, theoretician of Nazi art, benefactor and guide of young Nazi writers, was once a novelist himself. In 1929, seven years after he joined Hitler, Goebbels published Michael, subtitled A German destiny in the pages of a diary. The prose of Michael is of such high intensity that it almost blows out a fuse on its first page. Opening sentence: "No longer does the thoroughbred stallion snort under my loins," which means that Michael is home...
...thing Michael proves is that Goebbels was a worse novelist than Hitler was a painter. It also reveals why Goebbels takes so much interest in Nazi novels. A few established novelists, like Hans Fallada, whose Wolf Among Wolves (Putnam, $3) was published last month, avoid such mystical propaganda. But Goebbels eggs on young writers (more than 100 new authors have popped up in the last five years), while older ones like Fallada go on writing just as they did before Germany's least talented author became the director of her literary life...
Other assorted intimates are Winston Churchill, Noel Coward, Novelist Rebecca West. Best U. S. friend is Wall Street Plunger Bernard E. ("Sell 'Em Ben") Smith, who met Beaverbrook in 1930 when he sued him for libel.* Ben Smith sells the Beaver U. S. airplanes, talks to him several times a month on the transatlantic telephone and consults him on his own British publishing venture, Cavalcade, a TiMElike news magazine...
...local color and uncritical acceptance of apocrypha-make the books little more than extensions of the pioneer tales that fill magazine sections of Sunday newspapers. As an example of such journalism, Powder River is no worse than its predecessors, except that Struthers Burt, 56-year-old Philadelphian, best-selling novelist and owner of a dude ranch in the Jackson's Hole country of western Wyoming, has contributed an exclamatory style that can be described only as Wild West prose...