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Carnival, an escape into childhood by a Chicago advertising man named Georg Bromberg, was pretty and gay as striped candy. Charles S. Smith's Urban Landscape was contrastingly gloomy, but its gloom was of the pleasantly unreal sort that makes Poe's horror stories entertaining. As might have been expected, there was an atomic-bomb picture-an explosion in a surrealist stew cooked up by Mrs. Annabel Berry of Dallas. The fanciest fantasy in the show was a Captive Amazonian Albino, painted by M. Lewis Croissant, a Missouri engineer...
...circulation climbed to a dizzying 19,000 (biggest in the U.S.) after it reported the astonishing discovery of "man-bats" on the moon. The Sun's playful hoax won it readers without losing their confidence; nine years later, it ran another famed hoax by Edgar Allan Poe about the first transatlantic balloon trip...
Some great writers, says Dr. Brain, were insane in the strict sense "that they would today have been regarded as certifiable." Others, although not certifiable, were manic-depressives, obsessionals, alcoholics or drug addicts. Among mentally sick writers of all nations he includes Baudelaire, Dostoevsky, Flaubert, Goethe, Poe, Rousseau and Strindberg. Some Brain case histories and diagnoses of fellow Englishmen...
Died. Hervey Allen, 60, historical romancer, whose rambling, bulky Anthony Adverse (2 ¾Ibs., 1,224 pp.), published when he was 44, brought him fame & fortune; of a heart attack; in Miami. Writer also of a major work on Poe (Israfel, 1926), Author Allen had completed before his death three volumes (The Forest and the Fort, Bedford Village, Toward the Morning) of a proposed pentalogy (The Disinherited) about colonial America...
...Marks. Finally, in the East, someone mentioned the word that TV fears more than any other. Baltimore's Catholic Review, accusing NBC's adapters of "outdoing Mr. Poe himself" in televising The Fall of the House of Usher, warned: "When one considers that young children view television, it amounts to something that needs censorship...