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Though hardly anything is known about Pieter Bruegel the Elder, a great deal is known because of him. The demons and louts who crowd the pages of the newly published Fantasy of Pieter Brueghel* (edited by Adriaan L. Barnouw, Lear; $5) tell a lot about his time. Like the Satevepost covers of Norman Rockwell and John Falter, Bruegel's 16th Century pictures are minutely reportorial. But Bruegel never lapsed into slickness or sentimentality, not even when he illustrated the fairy tales and proverbs of his age. His frankness might not get through the mails today...
...Pearl, published in book form at year's end, Steinbeck reworked an old Mexican folk tale with over-deliberate folksiness. Lion Feuchtwanger's novel of 18th Century France had all the solidity and splendor of an old Orpheum Theater backdrop of Versailles. And Ben Ames Williams, old Satevepost standby, was delivered of a 1,514-page Civil War novel...
...liquor ads have ever appeared in the Curtis magazines (Satevepost, Ladies' Home Journal, Country Gentleman). Not that Curtis is anti-liquor. "All of our directors," President Walter D. Fuller once informed a Curtis Publishing Co. stockholder, "serve liquor moderately in their homes." But liquor ads, Curtis figured, would hurt its readership among church, school, farm and women's groups who never touch the stuff...
From retirement, Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey had his say about the responsibility for the Pearl Harbor disaster. "In all my experience," he wrote in the Satevepost, "I have never known a Commander in Chief of any United States Fleet who worked harder, and under more adverse circumstances. ... I know of no officer . . . who could have done more than [Admiral Husband E.] Kimmel...
...Secretary of State James F. Byrnes was making himself a future as a, has-been. He sold six articles of diplomatic reminiscing (a rumored $10,000 apiece) to the Satevepost, and a half-completed book to Harpers. Then he hung up his shingle in the Washington law office of Hogan & Hartson...