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Perspectives' "pilot" issue is a handsome, 236-page slick-paper job with a full-color abstract design on the cover. Inside are reprints of articles by Selden Rodman, Meyer Schapiro, Thornton Wilder and others, poetry by Archibald MacLeish and Robert Lowell, and fiction by William Faulkner. The pilot issue, foundation officials explained, is not an exact standard by which to judge Perspectives; only about half the pilot articles will be in the first issue. Nevertheless, the pilot issue gave the whole project-unless substantially changed-the flavor of a "little magazine's" fragile view of American culture, blown...
...Cooper graduated from the University of Texas in 1915, and was a captain of infantry in World War I. After the war, he plunged into the business and social life of Waco, where his father was a wealthy wholesaler, but it was not quite enough. He began to write slick-magazine stories-"the kind that not even a Texan would brag about." But he was serious enough to take correspondence courses in story writing from Columbia University. Nothing much came of it for a long time, though Cooper discovered that "I have a freak memory-I can remember indefinitely anything...
...seem to have been written by the same author. Except when they are wound up in a woolly snarl of technological jargon, they all employ one voice-that of the '203 and '303 tough guy, bounded on the rough side by "Huh," and on the smooth by slick patter ("Her voice was like _ a cello bowed up near the bridge"). All the objects of numbed horror are interchangeable, whether they are masked women wearing steel talons on their fingertips or vaporous robots created by "molecular integrators" out of the vagaries of spacetime...
Beginning with its next issue, the Freeman will be dressed up in a slick-paper cover. For the first time it will carry ads and go on sale on newsstands (in 50 cities) outside New York. Bossing distribution will be Alex L. Hillman, a successful publisher (Pageant, Homeland, People Today, twelve pulps). Added to the Freeman's editorial board, which includes Suzanne La Follette and Henry Hazlitt, will be Forrest Davis, an ex-editor of Scripps-Howard's Rocky Mountain News, political writer and onetime Washington editor of the Satevepost...
Beverley himself became conscious of a religious urge, and found his way into Dr. Frank Buchman's "Oxford Group." Beverley was not impressed by Leader Buchman, who was "so slick and starched and glossy that he suggested an American dentist: one felt he was always on the point of saying 'Open wide!'" But he fell for the Groupers' open-wide habit of confessing their sins to each other-until the disillusioning day when he himself tried to confess to a young lady-Grouper. With a scream of "Oh, really!" his confessor "shot away like a frightened...