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Two novels with a great deal in common perched last week at the top of the best-seller list: Laura Z. Hobson's Gentleman's Agreement and Sinclair Lewis' Kingsblood Royal. Both were earnest, pamphleteering tracts on the U.S. race problem. As novels, they were not very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What's Wrong? | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

The notion of defending to the death the rights of swine to swinish, so long as they keep it verbal, is a notion which did very well for the period of English quietism in which it was most popular, but in rough times like the present it is too often...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 7/18/1947 | See Source »

A gambler's restlessness stirred among the fleet of salmon trollers and purse seiners in Ketchikan, Juneau and Sitka, and at moorings along a thousand miles of hemlock-studded coast. In May this fleet and Alaskan canneries had been strikebound. But the 1947 fishing season could still mean riches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Promised Land | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

Author Schwarzschild's biographical facts are true, as far as they go. But the Marx he presents is a man with his brain cut out. Hence the facts add up to a caricature. Schwarzschild's thesis is that Karl Marx was 1) a rabbinical thinker whose pyramids of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Marx Debunked | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

"Vorkuta Is the Name." Before the Steel Curtain descended, the Baltic people were known to the world as a highly literate, vigorous peasant people, used to fighting for the reluctant fruit of their poor land. They have a stolid dignity, yet are cheerfully devoted to simple, inexpensive pleasures. In the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BALTICS: The Steel Curtain | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

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