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...hoops of experience set up by Novelist Dos Passos make him a bore. Examples: Jay's first impotent foray into sex with a Greenwich Village "free love" addict; Jay seeing a friend die during his "baptism of fire" in World War I; Jay defending a pair of Sacco-Vanzetti-like philosophical anarchists without...
Raised in a Brooklyn slum, Shahn struggled through 17 years as a commercial lithographer before graduating to self-expression. His most effective early works were paintings protesting the execution of Sacco & Vanzetti and the imprisonment of Tom Mooney. They had all the immediacy of snapshots...
Slight, short (5 ft. 5 in.) Lou Stark won his name by covering such stories as the Sacco-Vanzetti case, the pitched battles in Harlan County, the sitdown strikes of the '303. Whatever he covered (typing out his copy hunt & peck, then checking and re-checking until his deadline-conscious editors squirmed uneasily), he won the confidence and respect of both sides without ever favoring either. When the accuracy of an exclusive Stark story about coal bargaining was questioned two years ago, Illinois' Paul Douglas said on the Senate floor: "I have never known Lou Stark to make...
...year-old Washington spinster named Margaret Shipman read the news of his incarceration with fire in her eye. Last week Miss Shipman, a wiry, retired schoolteacher who once circulated petitions for Sacco & Vanzetti, decided to rush to the rescue. Although she had never met Browder until the day before, she marched into Washington district court, dug 15 new $100 bills out of her battered handbag and demanded his release. Was she a Communist? reporters wanted to know. "Now that's none of your business," she said "and don't you make up anything." The authorities counted...
...years ago on the genteel upper slopes of U.S. society, Dos Passes got a long look at the depths as a World War I ambulance driver. He came back to a U.S. racked by social and economic change, threw himself into the defense of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Before long, like many another idealist of his generation, Dos Passos had plunged deep into the murk of Marxism. The murk slightly distorted his otherwise vivid, sprawling trilogy of 20th Century America, U.S.A., which remains his most notable contribution to U.S. writing...