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...some 40 years, schoolboys have known him as co-editor of Moody & Lovett's A History of English Literature. The roll of his students who made the grade as professional writers reads like a partial Who's Who of U.S. authors. Some of them: John Gunther, Vincent Sheean, Glenway Wescott, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Vardis Fisher, Harry Hansen, Helen Hull, Janet Planner...
...letters); and a four-page picture sequence showing U.N. delegates shaking hands and grinning vaguely at each other. In its table of contents were names like Pearl Buck, Arthur Compton, Trygve Lie, Edouard Herriot; on its editorial masthead were names like William L. Shirer, Thomas Mann, Jawaharlal Nehru, Vincent Sheean and Lin Yutang. The magazine's real head is Publisher Egbert White, a former Manhattan advertising executive who ran Yank and the Mediterranean Stars and Stripes for the Army...
...even in my experience"), of some of his views on Caribbean policy and on colonial policy in general. A fat, rambling, earnest, occasionally angry, sometimes eloquent book, it is full of Olympian judgments, professional footnotes, diary extracts and side remarks on subjects as remote as the writings of Vincent Sheean or the progress of the Pacific naval war. But the main theme is clearly and realistically developed. It may shock the kind of complacent liberal who assumes that Puerto Rico's troubles could be solved in short order if only some New Dealer would come along, ease...
...question of the degree of appeal which such a combination will have for the nation's reading public. As compared with the original NR, this appeal is great. The drawings and cartoons which are interspersed throughout the magazine; the addition of such well-known writers as Vincent Sheean and Teodore H. ("Thunder Out of China") White; the more striking cover--all should serve to increase its popularity. Lessor-known, but highly competent journalists, including UN news-covering Jane Bedell and a former Newsweek editor Thomas Whiteside, have been added as assistant editors...
Urged on new readers at a "special Henry Wallace rate" ($5 a year), the new New Republic had a printing of 85,000 copies, more than double its usual press run. Better-known new contributors (Vincent Sheean, Chinahand Theodore White) had "writing arrangements," would have no say in editorial direction...