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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Your review of A World to Win [TIME, June 3] has been read and censures duly noted. I think your readers might be interested to know that the first printing of this book was 80,000 copies and that the Dollar Book Club has agreed to take not fewer than half, a million copies next autumn...
When he was learning his trade 15 years ago writing TIME'S Books section, and turning out some poetry and an occasional novel of his own, one of Matthews' novels moved a fellow critic to begin his review as follows: "Thomas Stanley Matthews, 30, has a chin that sticks out from under a nose, eye, and brow that might have belonged to St. Paul, patron saint of his preparatory school (Concord...
...know Philip L. Graham, 30, think the boss's daughter married well. As a student at the University of Florida, intelligent, easygoing Phil Graham weathered a depression year by working as a Miami milkman. In 1939 he was graduated from Harvard Law School, where he edited the Law Review. Then he became a law secretary, first to Supreme Court Justice Stanley Reed, then to Justice Felix Frankfurter (a close friend of Meyer's). He worked briefly for the Office of Emergency Management. In 1942 Graham entered the Army Air Forces as a private, came out a major...
...United States has come of age and faces the transition from fighting for working benefits to administration of its recent gains, Benjamin M. Selekman, Kristein Professor of Labor Relations at the Graduate School of Business Administration, declares in an article written for the summer number of the "Harvard Business Review...
...nostalgic paragraph, he lamented that "to this generation, Ziegfeld is William Powell with talcum at the temples." In a thumbnail review of Around the World, he asked Orson Welles "Isn't it about time you made up your mind whether you're Senator Pepper, D. W. Griffith, or Kupperman the Quiz Kid? . . . You've been away too long, Doubledome." In another piece he gave the back of his hand to an old pal: ". . . Gary Grant has been putting the blast on the kids who pester him for his autograph. I don't get it. When...