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Bethel Merriday is a distinctly better book, and its comparative goodness may be instructive to historians of Sinclair Lewis' career. With a talent that has more hop on the ball than nine or ten ordinary writers, Lewis wrote his memorable novels not when he had a "good idea" but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Road Work | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

Revealing of Wilde's character is Biographer Winwar's picture of the sun-flower-&-lily school he dramatized, the arch-esthete contemporaries he cultivated and admired-Painter Jimmie Whistler, who hammered home the theory that art has no morals and trained Wilde in the most cynical wit of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Homogenius | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

It was discovered that, once dug in, the opposing armies were remarkably hard to penetrate; but after each foozled attack the respective High Commands merely concluded that the next one would have to mass still more men, concentrate still more artillery fire. Thus dryly at first, in terms of headquarters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Vols. XV & XVI | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

When NBC officials threatened recently to deprive sardonic Composer Deems Taylor of his free tickets to the broadcast, on the ground that he "didn't like Toscanini anyway," he blasphemously cracked: "I admit Toscanini was at the Last Supper, but I insist that he did not sit at the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Toscaninnies | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Sir Eric's successor will be 56-year-old Sir Ronald Hugh Campbell, who served as Minister to Paris from 1929 to 1935, has since been Minister to Yugoslavia. It is unusual for a British Ambassador to France (with Paris and Washington at the top of the British Ambassadorial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Sir Ronald for Sir Eric | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

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