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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vital statistics on the book: The volume is 888 pages long, and weighs three and three-quarters pounds. It covers American literature from "Mourt's Relation" (1662) to "For Whom the Bell Tolls," from the "American Magazine" (1741) to PM. Walt Whitman gets more space than anyone else (two full pages), closely followed by Henry James, Thoreau, Emerson, and Poe. Nicholas Murray Butler, who usually gets more space in "Who's Who" than any other man, gets only 17 lines here. And the height of degradation for Mr. Butler is that he is followed by "Butler, Rhett, character in 'Gone...
Died. Elias Disney, 83, father of Walt Disney; in Hollywood...
...squalor-but the general impression it communicated was that the U.S. would fix such conditions, and that in spite of everything the U.S. would get along all right. The U.S. that emerged from that issue of FORTUNE-through the articles, the charts, the statistics, the figures, the quotations from Walt Whitman, the photographs of nice big factories, wheat fields, mountains, orange groves, and reasonably good, independent-looking people voting, plowing, inventing, building, dancing, playing games, going to shows, or just loafing around the depot-was fairly buoyant and hopeful...
...month ago, Judge Welsh set out on a bicycling vacation to see whether the old Republic had actually changed so much since he first biked along her roads half a century ago. He used Walt Whitman's sources: mechanics, paperhangers, plumbers, Governors. At journey's end he had seen how it was with the country and the people; the U.S. looked O.K. to him: "Down beneath it all, we are still the same good people...
Coney Island was not always the garish proletarian mecca it is today. Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, Sam Houston, other aristocrats disported themselves on its then remote plage. Walt Whitman too was crazy about it: "The long bare unfrequented shore ... I had all to myself . . . where I loved after bathing to race up and down...