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Round-faced Robert B. Jung, 34, the founder of Good News, is a Berlin-born Czech, a veteran of the anti-Hitler underground. He is now U.S. correspondent for Zurich's daily Die Tat, the weekly Die Weltwoche, and his own European feature agency, Dukas. His helper for Vol. i, No. i, was Correspondent Hans Steinitz of the Bern daily Der Bund. They timed their maiden issue to meet Mrs. Jung on her arrival from a European trip. She had wed her husband under protest last spring, feeling that journalism was "all dissension, fear and hate," and Jung...
...also a year in which literary figures were allowed to speak for themselves: Andre Gide's Journal, Vol. 2, rich with evidence of the creative mind's way of work; Franz Kafka's morbid Diaries; Anton Chekhov's plain, warm Private Papers; Edwin Arlington Robinson's letters in Untriangulated Stars which told the painful story of an American poet's struggle for survival...
Both Eleanor's and Franklin's letters, which they wrote as diaries of their trips, together with Mama's answers and letters to and from other members of the Roosevelt clan, are collected in Vol. II of F.D.R., His Personal Letters (edited by son Elliott* and published by Duell, Sloan & Pearce; $5). Vol. I (TIME, Oct. 13, 1947) took F.D.R. from boyhood to young manhood; Vol. II carries him from his honeymoon...
...quiet Aix-en-Provence, France, Winston Churchill settled down for a few weeks in a hotel suite to finish Vol. II of his memoirs, between painting junkets...
...Vol. II, just published (the third volume will be out next year), is probably as candid a confession of a writer's moral and ethical anguish as ever got into print. Not even in Gide's own sensationally indiscreet autobiography, It Die (a limited edition appeared in the U.S. in 1935), is the reader treated to a grimmer spiritual wrestling match than in this account of Gide v. his personal devil, Gide v. an inhospitable world, Gide v. his Puritan conscience...