Word: pp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...modestly minor interpreters of the modern U. S., Lewis Mumford has one of the most respectful followings. No Jeremiah, no hard-shell Marxian, with no patent axe to grind, he goes at the complex mass of modern civilization with all five senses. Technics and Civilization, scholarly, ambitious, big (495 pp.), does not attempt to be a Bible for any creed, but it may well prove to be a milestone in the circuitous study of the Machine...
...VENUS-George Cronyn -Covici, Friede ($3). Of the ten long years that went to the making of The Fool of Venus, eight were spent on research and the other two were wasted. In spite of all the pomp and panoply of a conscientiously historical novel, this lengthy (438 pp.) tale of a 12th Century troubadour rarely makes sense as a story about human beings. By dint of piling on medieval facts and such medieval words as bliaut, destrier, devinalh, joc-partitz, tenson, Author Cronyn has built a massive keep whose outlines are impressive but inside are only senseless shadows. Peire...
...Hugh Kingsmill- Viking ($2.75). Most-famed biography in English literature is James Boswell's 143-year-old Life of Samuel Johnson. Greatly daring, Author Hugh Kingsmill has written his own version, and his audacity has been successful. Though not comparable to Boswell's book in size (249 pp. to 1,104 pp.) Samuel Johnson can well afford comparison in other ways. Boswell is often thought of as the man who knew Dr. Johnson best. But that is not so. Boswell was a first-hand reporter of only one period of Garrick's actresses excited his amorous propensities...
...unbiased readers of Duranty Reports Russia will agree that on the whole Duranty has done a difficult job objectively and well. From the twelve-year files of his dispatches to the Times his good friend Gustavus Tuckerman Jr., New York University instructor, has selected enough for a fat (401 pp.) volume. Readers will be enlightened, historians will be grateful...
...that the spacing be shrunk to permit an adequate box at the end of the column; that you therein insert something similar to the following: "Do you also carefully read TIME'S advertising? For instance, where did 104,000 buyers spend $137,000,000 in 1933? (pp. 8-9)." 2) That you charge advertisers for the additional squib, allowing it to one or rotating it among all. Or, if used without charge, it will substantiate your claims of "TIME-the different magazine" in dealing with prospective advertisers. 3) That you reward the writer for his alertness in perceiving...