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...London's Savoy Hotel, John Steinbeck overheard a Chicago Tribune man snort: "Capa, you have absolutely no integrity!" That wartime remark, says Steinbeck, "intrigued me-I was fascinated that anybody could get so low that a Chicago Tribune man could say such a thing. I investigated Capa, and I found out it was perfectly true." Photographer Robert Capa and Author Steinbeck became great friends...
Waifs from the West. The Soviets admitted them-with some misgivings about Capa (who, in any country, talks and looks like an enemy alien) and his cameras. "The camera is one of the most frightening of modern weapons," says Steinbeck, "and a man with a camera is suspected and watched." To a polite, but suspicious young man at VOKS, the cultural relations office in Moscow, they tried to explain their mission...
...Yale, Kenyon or Sewanee Review, but it was at least gaining weight. The fifth quarterly issue went to 8,000 buyers, a gain of 3,000 from the first. To win them (at $3.50 a year), Spectator had turned an appraising gaze on Western writers, from Saroyan to Steinbeck. It had given two score pent-up regional intellectuals an outlet, and had ranged beyond the Pacific horizon to China (Lawrence Sears) and London (C. S. Forester...
Since they were not officially travelling as newsmen, the two encountered no hindrance from the Red "Iron Curtain," which Steinbeck says, "exists because of hurt feelings the Russians have gained from past experiences when news leaked out. Their policy," he stated, "is mainly one of retaliation...
Asked if he thought the Russian peasant was in poverty today, Steinbeck retorted, "Poor? Conditions are no different from any other sector. Take a tip down south in our own country if it's poverty you're looking...