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...Hollywood. Last week, for a change, two books came out of Hollywood. Both carry identical counsel for the U. S. citizen on identical subjects: Defense, Democracy and World War II. America Is Worth Saving is a spiteful, wretchedly written tract by great, aging Theodore Dreiser (The Titan, An American Tragedy), who lives in Hollywood, lectures to California's women's clubs. The Remarkable Andrew might well be Dreiser's tract scripted into a novel by its author, Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo...
Dullest of sport events is shot-putting. On a track-meet program, it is usually an incidental diversion while running races are being staged. This year, however, the shot-put has thudded into more general attention due to a Titan named Al Blozis...
...athletic co-discoverer (with Husband Jean Frédèric Joliot) of synthetic radioactivity (see cut, p. 29). But never to elegant Daughter Eve whose brilliant biography Madame Curie was a smash seller all over the U. S. (TIME, Dec. 13, 1937). Eve is no more a scientific titan than Mrs. Roosevelt. She is, however, just about as articulate, effective, and well-acquainted all over the world as her White House hostess and considerably better dressed. On the day after break of war, that smart novelist & playwright Jean Giraudoux, now French Information Minister, with sure instinct chose smart...
...court to demonstrate how he can balance a pencil on his bare toes. But in Jack's next match, he faced no eccentric pushover. He ran up against a 19-year-old, six-foot-one Golden Boy from California, unseeded and unsung, but the nearest thing to full Titan stature U. S. tennis has seen this season. Sidney Welby Van Horn, who prefers Welby because he thinks Sidney sounds like Percy, showed an overhead game like Budge's, a forehand like Vines's, a backhand like nobody's and a service like sixty to nudge...
...every young man whose tennis game is good enough to win a State or district championship. This week at the toney Seabright Lawn Tennis & Cricket Club on the Jersey coast, the cream of the current crop of Davis Cup hopefuls, more enthusiastic than ever because there is no titan like Donald Budge to tower over them this year, will match strokes in the first of the four major grass-court tournaments that annually serve as a showcase for U. S. tennis talent...