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...Anderson's Triumph of the Egg and Conrad Aiken's Silent Snow, Secret Snow, which somehow never made the yearly collections. Some master storytellers, among them Willa Cather, Katherine Anne Porter and John O'Hara, do not appear, while William Faulkner is represented by a mediocre sketch...
...Carnegie exhibition of U.S. painting. Three years ago, Guston turned his back on easy success, joined the abstractionist ranks. His latest exhibition in a Manhattan gallery features huge canvases thinly blotched with pale colors, and greyish ribbons of paint trailing, snail-like, over slush-hued backgrounds. His sketch for the exhibition catalogue, an apparently random doodle of short, jerky dashes, is a fair sample of the new Guston. His reason for the change: "I was unhappy...
...first sketch in the new section is of Groucho Marx, whose appearance on this week's cover is an introduction to the department. Groucho appeared on our cover once before, along with three of his four brothers, in 1932.This week's Personality story is the work of Joel Sayre, who has written for TIME, The New Yorker and Hollywood...
Somewhat surprisingly, the stories about World War II flying make dull reading, perhaps because aerial combat had become so formalized that one account seems pretty much like another. But Editor Jensen has dug up two first-rate items for his closing sections. Someone Like You is a poignant sketch of battle fear by Roald Dahl, a onetime R.A.F. pilot. And in The Three Secrets of Flight, Wolfgang Langewiesche, a onetime test-pilot, offers a superbly lucid discussion of the psychological adjustments men must make to survive...
...Light in August" being especially noteworthy. An extended review of "Requiem for a Nun" by Albert Guerard seems to me the best that has appeared. Along other things, Guerard's passing reference to "Temple Drake's tragedy (which is that she is Temple Drake)" is a classic thumbnail sketch of the bitch-heroine...