Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Better than Hollywood. Yellowknife is a storybook mining town on the north shore of Great Slave Lake, 700 miles north of Edmonton, in the cold, desolate subArctic where temperatures fall sometimes to 60° below zero. Traces of gold were first discovered there in 1898. But fur-trapping was the area's No. 1 business until, one fall day in 1934, Prospectors C. J. Baker and H. M. Muir found high-grade ore on the shore of Yellowknife Bay. Then the gold rush...
...aristocracy," says this novel's blurb, "came to 16th Century Mexico because of a romantic entanglement which violated the moral code of his class and time." One of Ricardo's first acts on reaching his sugar plantation in the New World was to violate Lucita, an Indian slave-girl: he calmed his conscience by muttering that she was "scarcely more than an animal." And when he met his branded, filthy, full-eyed, Indian field hands for the first time, Ricardo's only thought was how awful it was that a decent white man should have...
Novelist Hays, whose last novel, Lie Down in Darkness (TIME, Sept. 18, 1944), was a suspenseful psychological study, is more successful in showing where his characters stand in relation to the brotherhood of man than in furnishing them with real legs. His Indians and friars have simple souls, his slave-owners display appropriate symptoms of spiritual and physical decay: everyone is more symbolical than human. But the colorful setting and the well-organized, well-dramatized facts of history set The Takers of the City well above the average of current historical novels...
What, No Scoops? Authors Leigh & White are critical of the "slave-press" countries, but believe that the barrier-breaking problem "is not made easier by the fact . . . that the so-called 'free press' countries sometimes preach more zealously than they practice. . . . What newspapermen really want is what Kent Cooper, executive director of the A. P., calls 'the right to roam the world at will, writing freely of what they see and feel.' ... It means ... an equal opportunity to use their wits to create unequal success. . . . Sorely tempted, a New York Times's Raymond Daniell will...
...truest lovers of God and the most ascetic are essentially joyful; because a strong spirit, that knows and despises the world, has joy enough in its very freedom. All things are its own in idea, and to none of them is it a slave. It has begun to taste the bliss of seeing earth from heaven...