Word: printings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Would you print in your Letters column a summary of the speed boat records made by Gar Wood the late Sir Henry Segrave. I should like to know the speed made by the late Sir Henry on the day of his death. Please inform me also as to the greatest speed made in a sea-flea and who by. This is to settle an argument and we have agreed that TIME'S report decides the winner. H. C. McGuire Cobourg...
Cimarron (RKO). Edna Ferber's story of the birth and growth of the State of Oklahoma as reflected in the life of a newspaperman and his family was brilliantly cinematic in print and is vivid and memorable journalism as a cinema. It is a long, full-bodied picture, paced so deftly that although it covers more than half a century of crowded, changing events, it never drags and is rarely jerky. Westward goes Richard Dix with his wife (Irene Dunne) to start a newspaper in the town of Osage, Okla., which has sprung into a population...
Many a soldier has rushed into print, but not often on the side of the angels. Major Karl-Axel Bratt, Swedish staff officer and member of the committee considering Sweden's national defense policy, has written a book about the next war, but against it, not for it. Like many another Cassandra, Major Bratt thinks that unless Something Is Done the next war will be upon us before we know...
Also there is a complete set of the Harvard Historical Studies, some of the early volumes of which have been out of print for many years and are now considered very valuable...
...poets have become bestsellers, but Stephen Vincent Benet turned the trick when he wrote John Brown's Body (1928). His is a Muse of a straightforward, dramatic kind, at her best in balladish vein. Into this book Poet Benet has collected his favorites from three earlier, out-of-print volumes and has added some new ones. Only a Benet enthusiast would call this book first-class, but almost anyone would grant its readability, its occasional bursts of exciting phrases...