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MEMOIRS OF A SECRET AGENT OF FREE FRANCE (Vol. I; 406 pp.)-Rémy- Whittlesey...
...From the Treasurer's Statement we learn . . ." read the first words to emerge from The Magenta under that bravest of all battle flags, the one that reads Vol. 1. Issue 1. Early readers who had just descended from their mustache cups to their poached eggs that January morning in '73 learned in the next eleven lines of clipped prose that the Kirkland Fellowship fund had reached the level...
...Vol. VIII, the calendar reads 1942-43; Lanny Boy is now in his 40s, thrice married and one of the hidden heroes of a U.S. at war. His job: acting as secret agent for Franklin Roosevelt, his great, good friend ("Thanks as always, old man," says F.D.R.; "your data have been invaluable. . . . Would you like some iced tea, or something with a stick...
...true religions have taught that the life of contemplation, i.e., of the saints and mystics, is above the life of action as well as the life of pleasure. And, as Toynbee says in Vol. 3 of his Study of History: "The goal of human endeavours . . . will only be attained when the whole of Society has come to exist of individuals of the new species which is represented by the Saints alone in human history up to date...
...still in the dictation stage: every day the memoirist rattles off Churchillian prose to his secretaries. Five ribbon-bound stacks of notes, diaries and outlines, one for each volume, lie on Winston Churchill's work table in his library at Chartwell. Early next year, it is hoped. Vol. I (probably covering the period up to Dunkirk) will appear in a weekly series in LIFE, and daily installments in the Times. Other installments will probably follow at six-month intervals, timed to dovetail with book publication by Houghton Mifflin...