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Henry Louis Mencken, the veteran volcano from Baltimore, had a wonderful time at the Wallace convention (see PRESS), and nearly became the subject of a resolution. Maryland Wallaceites wanted the convention to censure him for his reporting in the Baltimore Sun ("Whereas he has resorted to un-American slander against the people of this convention . . ."). But the chair refused the motion on the ground that it would start a flood of others. Other Menckenisms filed to the Sun (on Henry Wallace): "If ... he suddenly sprouts wings and begins flapping about the hall, no one will be surprised"; (on Vice Presidential...
...Erupting Volcano. Minnesota's Joe Ball picked up the argument. Too many foreign-policy programs, he cried, have already been oversold to the U.S. people. Would ERP be any more effective? Joe Ball did not think so. He said: "It is like asking [Europe's] men and women to build a factory on the side of a volcano which is already erupting. ... I see no signs that the Administration has any policy or program ... to solve the problem of pure Soviet power aggression...
...poverty of theme was Jean Stafford's The Mountain Lion, a funny and tragic little story of children in the West. Another was Bend Sinister, Russian-born Vladimir Nabokov's brilliant nightmare novel of European life at the advent of dictatorship. Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano, an ambitious effort to analyze a modern type of disintegrated personality and to make it universal, failed in the second aim; but his descriptions of a Mexican setting were memorable. The finest short stories of the year were perhaps V. S. Pritchett's It May Never Happen...
...Vera Cruz El Dictamen had a newsbeat: a new volcano was hissing and smoking up out of a farmer's field, just as famed Paricutin did four years ago. Villagers from the interior, said El Dictamen, were fleeing the smoke and hot ashes. The A.P. picked up the story; most U.S. newspapers ran it. Last week Mexican and U.S. scientists (but few newspaper readers) heard the truth. El Dictamen had been hoaxed...
...when Delacroix died, and now published for the first time in English (Delacroix; Lear, Crown; $5). To the world, Bachelor Delacroix was the urbane, self-confident son of a prosperous lawyer-obviously gifted, and smooth as silk in company. To his friends, he was "like the crater of a volcano artistically hidden by bouquets of flowers." Wrote the author of Flowers of Evil...