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...Version Sirs: "It's great to be a Georgian," despite even TIME'S publicizing Erskine Caldwell's crackpot version of conditions in the Empire State of the South. Yanks! He gets paid to write that tomfoolery and the paragraph about the two children playing Romulus and Remus to a "dry-teated" hound is tops in the Uncle Tom's Cabin type of journalism...
...Fascist Italy's ladder of military organizations for males from 8 to 21, Benito Mussolini last week added a bottom rung for moppets between 6 and 8. Estimated enrollment: 1,500,000. Name: "Sons of the Wolf.'' The mythical founders of Rome, Romulus and Remus, were sons of War God Mars. They were suckled by a kindly she-wolf and fed by a woodpecker. Mussolini plans no "Sons of the Woodpecker...
Roark Bradford has gone the late Joel Chandler Harris one better. Harris' classic Uncle Remus showed the Negro as storyteller, at one remove from his own concerns; in Bradford's tales Brer Fox and Brer Rabbit appear in their own black skins, without disguise. Negrophiles and educated Negroes may object that Author Bradford simplifies too much, sentimentalizes too often, but plain readers like his stories. Marc Connelley's The Green Pastures, founded on Bradford's first book, Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun, was the Broadway hit of 1930, won the Pulitzer Prize that...
Joel Chandler Harris was primarily a workaday newspaper man who for 24 years wrote editorials and features for the Atlanta Constitution. It was the Constitution which first printed an "Uncle Remus" story and D. Appleton & Co. which first persuaded its author to put a group of them in book form. (First edition: 1880.) A serious student of folklore and Southern dialects, Joel Harris claimed no invention for his stories, contended that he merely compiled them from tales told to him by Negroes...
Painfully shy, Author Harris would completely lose his voice when he met strangers, was badly frightened when President Theodore Roosevelt invited him to spend a night at the White House. The last year of his life he spent editing an unsuccessful monthly called Uncle Remus's Magazine. Two weeks before he died of cirrhosis of the liver in 1908, he was baptized into the Roman Catholic Church...