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...born in Arizona ghost towns: Frederick Cromwell, 36; Harry Behn, 46, who wrote movie scenarios for Hell's Angels and The Big Parade. Both hope to draw more heavily on Yaqui and Papago folklore than on the literary curiosa that usually deadens quarterlies. Best bets in Vol...
...Vol. I No. 1 editorial Editor Labarthe, who now holds aloof from any French faction, wrote of resistance inside France: "We know that strong roots nourished by blood are growing, some day to break through to the light. . . . Four years of silence . . . have unconsciously changed people's approach to almost every problem." Added he, in a passage obviously aimed at Charles de Gaulle, among others: ". . . Men who have gone through the fire of defeat will feel differently from those who have escaped. . . . The men inside Europe will not show enthusiasm when those who lived in foreign lands...
...almost legendary Lanny Budd through the corrupt vicissitudes of Europe between wars. Sinclair Lewis' Gideon Planish ($2.50), a withering blast at phony philanthropists and do-gooders, awoke pale memories of Elmer Gantry. With The Forest and the Fort ($2.50), Anthony Adverse's Hervey Allen hewed out Vol. I of a projected six-volume epic novel about American life from Colonial days to the Civil War. In Thunderhead ($2.75), Mary O'Hara told, with delicate feeling for animals, a very human life story of a horse, a sequel to her My Friend Flicka. Martin Flavin's Harper...
...large, tastefully designed Panofsky Dürer contains 282 pages of text (Vol. I), 149 pages of beautifully printed collotype plates reproducing many of the known examples of Dürer's work (Vol...
...overdescribe it," sighed Archie Campbell. "After the peace the War Department will have to send troops there to drag those guys home . . . it's a soldier's dream." Less explicit, less expansive than Campbell, the Pacific Islands Pilot, Vol. III, Sixth Edition, nevertheless concedes that Aitutaki's people are "hospitable and well-disposed...