Word: reviews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...review had barely hit the newsstands when the conductor's wife brushed into La Hora's office and stood before Critic Goldschmidt's desk. Madame Paray, a blonde and ample Alsatian, is about 20 years younger than her husband. She is also a loyal wife. For 15 minutes she rawhided the critic in German. Sighed Goldschmidt as she left: "A real Valkyrie...
...Manhattan's ramshackle Bible House, which shelters the New Masses and a raft of other left-wing and labor groups, there was a new stir of activity. Partisan Review, bimonthly magazine of the literary Left, had found an angel. So it was about to go monthly, and pay its editors a salary for the first time...
...bearded Allan D. Dowling, 43, who makes his money in real estate and spends some of it publishing his own avant-garde poems, had sent the Review a mash note. He thought it was the finest thing since the dear dead Dial, he said, and he offered to stake it to enough cash to make the Review in fact what John Dos Passos had called it: "The best literary magazine in America." Longtime Co-Editors William Phillips and Philip Rahv told Angel Dowling that they thought the job would take at least $50,000 a year...
...Initiated. Without a 'big bank roll, Partisan Review has filled its pages with big-name writers to whom it has offered not money but space: a place to be as highbrow as they like, to talk to their own kind and never mind being intelligible to the uninitiated. The result has been sometimes stuffy, oftentimes overreaching, but usually stimulating. Such first-rate writers and critics as Arthur Koestler, Ignazio Silone, George Orwell, Albert Camus, Andre Gide and Edmund Wilson have sold Partisan Review articles for a token $2 a page. Poets T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, Karl Shapiro...
...Manhattan, after two years' planning and plowing through thousands of dollars of Marshall Field's and other men's money, Saturday Review of Literature Editor Norman Cousins last week pulled the sheet over his projected leftist Collier's-type magazine, to be known as USA. Costs were too high now, he said. He hoped to try again...