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Most Shocking. Possibly the year's most shocking war book was not written by a soldier, described no battles. It was Thérèse Bonney's photographic record of what World War II has done to Europe's children. Privately printed (after rejection by ten publishers), Europe's Children is now completely sold out. Duell, Sloan & Pearce is publishing a new edition...
...reason is not Lewis' music per se. His band has at times had first-class hot-jazz players (Muggsy Spanier, Benny Goodman, Jimmy Dorsey, George Brunies*). But usually the musicians are purely a supporting cast to Lewis himself. He is a one-man synthesis of U.S. show business at its showiest. Under full steam, Ted Lewis embodies the Shakespearean ham, the minstrel strutter, the carnival drum major, the medicine barker, the vaudeville tearjerker, the circus buffoon, the ragtime sport-all among the most fondly regarded figures in U.S. life...
...words were calm, dignified, nonrevolutionary. But they ranged a distinguished churchman with students, professors, workers and other civilians in a mounting popular protest against a mounting rightist dictatorship. "To dominate slaves," exhorted the Bishop, "is doubly ignoble; to reign over the free is doubly glorious! Your Excellency, Señor Presidente: let your authority be the guaranty of our liberty...
Substitute. The Ramirez Government will replace Señor Espil with Adrian Escobar, a stranger to the U.S., but well-known as an opportunist. Once considered pro-Franco, Escobar is at least certain to be safely pro-Ramirez...
...studios learned that this orderly gentleman, who had dined every day with his mother, had taken one of his models as a mistress and by her had a son (who died soon after his father, stricken by the same disease). One of Seurat's finest paintings, Jeune femme se poudrant, is of this woman, Madeleine Knobloch...