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Aragon: Poet of the French Resistance (Duell, Sloan & Pearce, $2), edited by Hannah Josephson and Malcolm Cowley, offered a translated selection from among four of the six volumes of verse which this facile versifier wrote in France during and after the German occupation. Aragon was celebrated in this volume as the laureate of the Maquis. In English these poems, intensely patriotic, often loose and ballad-like, richly embellished with surrealist imagery, are eloquent, interesting, but difficult to assess as poetry. The detached reader is likely to wonder whether Aragon is being canonized with too little regard for Jean Cocteau...
...WESTWARD-Robert Sherrod-Duell, Sloan & Pearce...
Recently efforts have been made to even things up. Last summer General Motors' Alfred P. Sloan Jr., gave $4,000,000 for cancer research (see below), and last month the American Cancer Society allotted $500,000 to research, from this year's fundraising. Last week's news: heart disease will get $578,000 a year for six years from those practical operators, the insurance companies. This is two and a half times as much money as is now being spent on heart-disease research...
...wandered the streets of New York, sketching what he saw. He learned to love the rattling, ironwork kaleidoscope of city life, the eye-catching colors of chain-store fronts, gasoline pumps and taxicabs; the bright blinking of electric signs, and the hot beat and glare of Negro jazz. John Sloan, one of the Philadelphia Press artists, chose Davis' early work for the magazine The Masses, the bible...
...Hearst's Frederic Remington, but Glackens' Night after San Juan, which he drew while covering the Spanish-American War for the Press, was a topflight demonstration of vivid, accurate reporting. In the latter-day paintings, especially Shinn's The Hippodrome, Luks's The Spielers and Sloan's Wake of the Ferry, gallery-goers could see how a whiff of spot-news training had led to fine art happily free of the musty brown academicism of the time...