Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Caldwell Called Sirs: I read with a great deal of interest and astonishment your edition of March 4 in which you quote from a recent article by Erskine Caldwell which appeared in the New York Post. I am not making direct answer to Caldwell in a communication addressed to you, but I wish to ask that you read the attached editorial from the Augusta Chronicle and the indignant denial of the charges made by Caldwell by prominent people from the section to which he refers. . . . . . . Until now no one has taken the trouble to call Caldwell's hand...
...America everything is hustle and bustle. For example, I saw a man rush into the subway pushing everyone. As the subway stopped I followed him as he ran up the stairs, thinking something was wrong. To my amusement he sat down in the park and read the newspaper...
...quite amazed that I can make a good living writing books my audiences hate, making talks my audiences resent. Of course it can't last. Some day somebody will read one of my books or understand what I am saying." So quipped radical Author Evelyn John St. Loe Strachey last month...
...Typographically erroneous, however, was the New York Herald Tribune headline last week which read...
...Personal History" should be read by anyone desiring an objective picture of the post-war decade, with its cant, its hypocrisy, its lack of any workable standard, its deification of Mammon, and its half-hearted efforts to achieve peace. The picture is doubly effective when drawn with Mr. Sheean's clarity, and thrown into bold relief by his painstaking and often courageous search for truth...