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...years ago spectacled Laurence Greene, Baltimore Sun copyreader, began rummaging about in old U. S. newspaper files. His object: to assemble "the sort of scrapbook an inveterate reader of newspapers who lived in three centuries might have compiled." In burrowing his way from 1690, when the first U. S. newspaper was published, to the War, Laurence Greene's greatest difficulty was to stick to the red-letter historical events, avoid the temptation to wander down fascinating journalistic bypaths. Last week Laurence Greene's historical newspaper scrapbook, America Goes to Press* was published. Of his collection of such classic...
...colored portrait on the cover goes into my scrapbook. I would have you understand that is a great honor. Only a few personalities retain a position there, and among those few are Roosevelt II and Einstein...
INNOCENT SUMMER-Frances Frost-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Poet Frost's first novel lavishly embroiders the now familiar theme that in the countryside every prospect pleases and only man is vile. THE WHOLE WORLD & COMPANY-Gretchen Green-John Day-Reynal & Hitchcock ($3). A scrapbook autobiography by the peripatetic daughter of an Episcopalian clergyman...
...Internal Revenue" contains a widely assorted group of impressions, experiences, and other scraps gathered here and there between Bermuda and Hawaii, plus a few literary appreciations and a rotogravure section. The rotogravure section contains photographs of treasures culled from the author's scrapbook--holographs, playbills, autographed pictures, manuscripts. The best part of the book is the chapter titled "Briefcase", containing essays on literary subjects, beginning with a delightful appreciation of Louis Hind's "100 Second Best Poems" and ending with an almost moving discussion of Remarque's "The Road Back". The worst part of the book is that headed "Three...
...will send a return scrapbook to the Truman Street School. Vassily Stalin's teacher asked Correspondent Barnes if he thought the New Haven children would object to receiving a pasted-in-copy of the song that greets Dictator Stalin whenever he appears in public, the Internationale. Written to incite "the World Revolution of the World Proletariat" it loudly trumpets...