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...Leslie is neither the familiar "laudator temporis acti" not the unheeded prophet wailing in the wilderness, He does not come to censure or to praise. His general purpose is not historical, of course, for that adjective would be too dignified for one man's impressions of the times in which he lives...
...best-selling book (The Night Club Era ) and to pose for a full-page testimonial for Gruen watches in the Satevepost. He is reputed one of the ablest news executives in the land, although he will be only 36 this week. Last week he established himself as a prophet of his profession with a new book. City Editor.* City Editor is salty, rambling shoptalk and third-highball-philosophy of what the author calls "the greatest business on earth.'' Says he: "The business . . . calls for the best. Sometimes it mistreats its best, starves them, and then throws them into...
HENRY FOR HUGH-Ford Madox Ford -Lippincott ($2.50). Sequel to The Rash Act; Author Ford considers it "the best piece of work I have yet done." THE DEATH AND BIRTH OF DAVID MARKAND - Waldo Frank - Scribner ($2.75). The latest of Prophet Frank's novels of "mystical realism," this is less interesting as a novel than as prophecy- a symbolic tale of how a contemporary U. S. businessman cast off the old Republican Adam, found himself. REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST-Marcel Proust-Random House ($12.50). Proustians will want this four-volume edition of the late great Proust's magnum...
...Angeles heard the mature Klemperer last winter and Los Angeles pronounced him great for his Beethoven, his Brahms. He still looked like a dark, fanatic prophet but he had modified his gestures save for stirring climaxes when he jerked his head so violently that his ill-fitting glasses kept falling down his nose...
...substantially larger. Tom Girdler's statement meant that within a few years production would rise above the 1929 record of 56,000,000 tons. But by then, said Mr. Girdler, the country would be using steel "in a thousand ways that have never been dreamed of before." No idle prophet, he declared that his optimism squared with "facts that have been proved in our research laboratories, and tested out, from the standpoint of consumer acceptance, by salesmen in the field...