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Throngs of teary Germans gathered forlorn on the Hamburg waterfront when fire gutted the Fatherland's superliner Europa as she lay abuilding (TIME, April 8). They knew that Britons, with whom the Europa was chiefly insured, would pay for her reconstruction and put her on the Atlantic to wrest speed supremacy from the British Mauretania. All the same, they gloomed...
...brought out My Story, an unsuccessful 10^ confession magazine patterned closely after Macfadden's successful 25^ True Story. Macfadden sued. When the fight was at its hot test Publisher Delacorte heard that Publisher Macfadden was plotting to rush into circulation a magazine called Hullabaloo in order to wrest from Delacorte (by publication) the copyright to the title. The suit was settled out of court last week with Publisher Delacorte withdrawing My Story. Ostensibly, hostilities were over; but to make sure, Publisher Delacorte released Hullabaloo earlier than he had planned. (Afterward Publisher Macfadden denied that the name Hullabaloo was ever under...
Origin of the Horrible Hemingways was the revival in Los Angeles of several old-time melodramas in which, it was noticed, most of the villains were named Hemingway. The charter members and founders were three disgustingly fresh young men who hate everyone, who trip up old ladies on stairs, wrest candy from children, push invalids down hills in wheel chairs and take away cripples' crutches. Most Horrible (official title) is Alan Brown, sophomore at Pomona College. The other two: Robert Forbes, sophomore at Stanford; Parley Johnson, student at Harvard School, Los Angeles...
...Have Not Surrendered!" That anyone should have misinterpreted his words seemed to Mr. Baldwin willful, diabolic. Like a large, well-meaning cow stung by a hornet, he charged into the House H of Commons, defied Mr. Churchill to wrest the party leadership from him, made a great speech, an English speech, a speech to wring tears from honest eyes...
...first novel, "Three Steeples", LeRoy Macleod has brought a poet's imagery and style coupled with an inborn sympathy for people close to the land. Such a novel as this must be traditionally heralded as "typically American" or perhaps, "as American as the earth from which its characters wrest their living", leaving to the reviewer's imagination a picture of brawny sons of toil, that solid backbone of the agricultural West and Middle West, that along with the sombrero and the pathos of the vanishing Indian form a part of the great American Tradition. Yet, however incomplete may be this...