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Gene Meyer is no stranger to large affairs. He made his first million (Wall Street) before he was 30, has added many more. He first got into Government finance as director of the War Finance Corporation of World War I. He was the Governor of the Federal Reserve Board when Herbert Hoover made him the first chairman of the RFC. In his 13 years as owner-publisher of the Post he has converted it from a discredited, down-at-heel, old-line G.O.P. organ into a prosperous, independent journal...
...Browderless weekend wore on; speculation raged. Might Browder win reinstatement from Moscow? Stranger shifts had marked the party's history. Or, perhaps, he had met with an accident...
...STRANGER (154 pp.)-Albert Camus-Translated by Stuart Gilber-Knopf...
Camus, who is now on a U.S. lecture tour, has denied that he is an existentialist. He is nevertheless closely identified with this French literary cult, and The Stranger is right in its groove: "existential" pessimism underlines every cold, gross, irrational detail of the story...
...that the world makes no sense, that life as it has to be lived by human beings adds up to almost exactly nothing. In an essay called The Myth of Sisyphus, he once asserted that the only important philosophical problem confronting humanity is that of suicide. The Stranger, despite its simple and vivid writing, is about as negative and futile...