Selected Splendor for MacArthur MacARTHUR: HIS RENDEZVOUS WITH HISTORY. By Courtney Whitney. Knopf. $6.75. By HAROLD C. HINTON G ENERAL MacArthur was wrong: there is at least one old...
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BOOKS Yeats' Lifelong Immersion in the Spirit of Ireland THE LETTERS OF W. B. YEATS. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Allan Wade. Macmillan. $9.50. By VIVIAN MERCIER W 'HEN Yeats won...
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The New York Girls JOE DEVER HE was sitting in the reception lounge of the Zeff Publishing Company office suite when one of them walked in. This was a good place to see them, he knew, and,...
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THE LITERARY LIFE Two Writers One from Tel Aviv JOE DEVER HARRY RALBY came to see me 1-1- tonight. That is to say, one unknown writer called on another. It really can't be much different when...
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The Bookies By jOg- DEVER T H.E Feds ,have fmaRy beaten the boddes r cover, Lt~ probably a very ~good t~ng for the moral hea~ of the nation. Bt~t one can't hetp feting a little nostalgic about...
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Books Follow Me Ever. Charles E. Butler. Pantheon. $2.50. ANYONE who used to read the pages of Yank thoroughly will recall the careful, poignant verse of Charles E. Butler. Before and since the...
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The Sale
By JOE DEVER
PEACE, it's wonderful in Colorado's San Luis Val- ley. After two years in the shrill, feverish embrace of the Chicago Loop, it is a deliverance into a land of Cana, rich with...
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Books Catholicism. Henri de Lubac, S.J. Translated from the French by Lancelot C. Sheppard. Longmans. $3.75. CATHOLICISM is not a new work. It first appeared in 1938 and has had a profound...
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Echoes of Two Waughs
By JOE DEVER
SOMETHING of distress, swiftly passing, yet acute, came into his features when the finger bowls were not forthcoming.
"But we do not use finger bowls at a Saturday...
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72 William-the-Whim Joe Dever THE Saroyan power and charm—what is it? It has all been said before, but the power and charm still has to do with simple, indefatigable singing about...
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I61 THE COMMONWEAL May 3 I, x946 bloodiest rampage. Schneider saw with clearer vision than all his friends that even had it succeeded it would not have come to the root of the evil. It was...
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272 THE COMMONWEAL December 29, 1944 Carols without Jinny Joe Dever THEN THERE was the GI who pulled a gun on Jinny. The poor guy wanted to kill her because she didn't love him. He loved...
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