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...Tennessee, went to Congress for 22 years, where he was the leading Democratic expert on taxation in Woodrow Wilson's era, went to the Senate in time to be drafted for Franklin Roosevelt's Cabinet. The nearest town to his birthplace in Pickett County, Tenn. was called Olympus...
...Spark Sirs: As TIME's review of copious The Last Puritan (Feb. 3, p. 75) was characteristically pithy and succinct, so TIME-worthy were the picture-cover of the author and the intimate comments anent his banker-build and the routine of his days on that philosophers' Olympus where years ago he found his peace...
Long since turned to dust in a London cemetery, Karl Marx lives on in the turgid periods of Das Kapital and in the reverent thoughts of all right-minded Communists. That other god of the Soviet Olympus, Nikolai Lenin, remains visible in Moscow where science has kept the Russian Dictator's corpse intact for eleven years. Last week the Lenin tomb was closed to the public while Soviet workers busily installed air-conditioning equipment with a view to preserving the sacred remains for at least a century more...
Hollywood has scaled Olympus, the impossible has been attained--gentlemen, for the first time in cinema history a child actor has appeared who is wholly natural, who does not simper, who is not affected, who is genuinely likeable, and who is really amusing. Journey to the Met this week, if examinations possibly permit, if only to revive a rapidly vanishing belief in miracles...
...only obvious handle Author Cantwell gives to critics who would call his book propaganda is the title. In the story itself, he never once intrudes, never gives the impression that his class-warriors are aided or struck down from his hidden Olympus. Though the whole narrative is objective, third-person, Author Cantwell shifts the focus to each principal character in turn...