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...Last International" is Chief Analyst Cowley's prescient vision of the dead march of his comrades "against the Capitol...
Died. Frederick Britten Austin, 55, author of many a super-serial historical romance (The Road to Glory); in Weston super Mare, England. Romancer Austin's heroic imagination made his magazine articles prescient. Said he in 1935: "Imagine four million Parisians streaming out of Paris by every road, choking every artery, hindering all military movements, preventing the influx of supplies, paralyzing more or less the nerve centre of the country. That is what is going to happen when the first German bombers appear over Paris...
...when use is made of the expression that we must be careful not to lose our democratic rights while fighting to protect them." His tough, all-out club-waving version of democracy would make even some New Dealers cringe. Others will recall that Huey Long in one of his prescient moments said: "When Fascism comes to America, it will be called anti-Fascism...
From the days of Japan's first Emperor, Jimmu (one of whose female descendants had the wonderfully prescient name Jingo), the Imperial Throne has had its ups and its downs. At present the position of the Son of the Sun is at highest noon. Richer than all the Caesars, robed in 2,000 years of resplendent (if slightly manipulated) tradition, worshiped as a God by 72,000,000 emotional people, Hirohito is the earth's rarest vessel of authority...
Though their everyday oddities are her dish of tea, the serious talents of such male characters as Picasso and Stravinsky escape imprisonment in Miss Planner's prose. Yet her detailed profile of Adolf Hitler, written in 1935, is extraordinarily prescient (she recalls that at the time her editors doubted he was worth the space). Probably the most cheerfully cold-blooded reporting in the book is in Genêt's accounts of several eminent French murder cases. Sample (of a couple of life-insurance murders): "Both mates were tucked into the potter's field where their viscera...