ABOUT THE PROGRESSIVE AND THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE IT
about The PROGRESSIVE ... and the people who make it THE Progressive's Book Section has always been a sort of a step-child—mifch to the disgust of its Editor, Mary Sheridan. It has appeared only...
...His lining up with labor in Yale's janitors' strike a few years ago won him an honorary membership in Lewis' UCW...
...he was active in campus affairs and ' valued his track letter more than his Phi Beta Kappa key...
...He's of medium height, very lean, hard, and wiry...
...LOUIS FISCHER is the distinguished foreign correspondent who wrote Men and Politics, Empire, A Week with Gandhi, and Dawn of Victory...
...Ham Douglas, Thurman Arnold, Charles Clark, Walton Hamilton, Edwin Bor-chard, Harold Laski, Felix Frankfurter, and Wesley Sturges...
...He is a former editor of The Call and has contributed to The Nation and Common Sense...
...He is pastor of New York's Community Church, editor of Unity, and the author of Patriotism is Not Enough and New Wars for Old . .. SAMUEL ROMER is a former labor newspaperman who has made a special study of Japan and the Japanese labor and socialist movements...
...Other awards went to the San Francisco Chronicle, the Louisville Courier-Journal, and the Pasadena Star-Times...
...And somehow, too, he has found time to do quite a lot of political speaking and radio commentating...
...Among the four selected this year was The Progressive's, whose book pages were cited for their: "Lively, provocative, extremely critical reviews with no hint of the Ivory Tower attitude...
...ELLEN MARSH is a 22-year-old German-American, now living in New York, who wrote a remarkable first novel, Drink to the Hunted...
...After two years as confidential adviser to Pennsylvania's Gov...
...He is co-author of Europe in Perspec' tive, 1815 to the Present...
...OSWALD GARRISON VILLARD, the dean of America's liberal journalists, has been interested and active in New York's municipal affairs for more than two decades...
...The Publishers' Adclub of New York, representing most of the book publishing houses of the country, annually surveys the field and taps the four outstanding book sections in the nation-aside from the three big Sunday book supplements, the New York Times, the New York Herald-Tribune, and the Chicago Sun...
...CLAYTON FOUNTAIN is one of the top administrative assistants to Walter Reuther, president of the United Automobile Workers...
...He loves the West, the woods, and being married to his charming and talented wife, Katherine...
...On the personal side: that cut of him in The Progressive is fairly accurate...
...McALISTER COLEMAN is a labor reporter and author of Men and Coal...
...ERNEST L. MEYER, former columnist for the New York Pott, is on the foreign desk of the New York DaUy News...
...But while he has written no small amount about the law and lawyers for professional and popular journals, his career and interests jump over legal boundaries...
...Gifford Pinchot, Mr...
...WILLIAM B. HESSELTINE is teaching at a GI university in England and is spending his spare time studying —and, to our good fortune, reporting— the British scene: Mr...
...Fischer broke with that publication last year...
...It has appeared only when it was thought there was nothing vitally important for that space...
...CARLETON BEALS is the well-known authority on South America, world traveler, and reporter at large from the Near East, Russia, and Europe . . . ANTHONY NETBOY is associated with the U. S. Forest Service...
...JAMES S. HAMILTON, an expert on motion pictures, is executive director of the National Board of Review, a citizens committee for improving movie standards...
...That's the factual skeleton of Mr...
...He has written on European, and particularly French, political affairs for Politics and The Call...
...She wrote an article for The New Republic last Spring on the anti-Nazi groups in Germany...
...After years of writing for The Nation, Mr...
...He came back in 1927...
...He is working night and day on a new book scheduled for the first of 1946 . . . LOUIS CCAIR is a young French writer who left Vichy France to come to America...
...Robert Van Gelder, editor of the New York Times Book Review, and A. C. Spectorsky, editor of the Chicago Sun Book Week, all of whose own publications were not considered in the nationwide competition...
...He wrote The Pressure Boys, an expose of lobbying, and Report on North Africa...
...back from Europe this year after seeing war and its aftermath for himself, is associate editor of Newsweek...
...For a year he was Assistant Literary Editor of the Century Publishing Company and oh the side he wrote for Time...
...JOHN HAYNES HOLMES is president of the board of directors of the American Civil Liberties Union and deservedly known for his leadership in ^fighting intolerance...
...it, plus his writing, also branded him as the "radical" of the Yale faculty...
...Rodell wrote the crusading expose of the legal profession, Woe Unto You, Lawyers, which made some legal fur fly...
...Villard's most recent book is The Disappearing Daily...
...Rodell's first book was Fifty-five Men: the Story of the Constitution...
...His articles have graced the pages of Harper's, Life, Esquire, American Mercury, Reader's Digest, and, most of all—we're proud to say—The Progressive...
...Increasing interest in government and politics sent him back to school, this time to the Yale Law School, when it was just about at its most exciting peak—with a faculty which included Robert Hutchins, Wil...
...He went to Haverford College at 15...
...He Reaches at the Yale Law School (he was a full professor at .32), specializing in tax and labor law...
...He has kept on teaching—he has never practiced law—because of his liking for it and because the idea of having a whole Summer's vacation every year is more appealing to him than piling up money in a law office job...
...Back at Yale in 1939, Mr...
...The old New York World, 10 days late, was his bible...
...Hesseltine is on a leave of absence from his post in the University of Wisconsin's department of history...
...Fred Rodell was born (1907) and brought up just outside Philadelphia...
...During the last four years he has written many magazine articles, and The Progressive, except for the pay (or rather lack of it), is his favorite medium...
...Then he studied for a year at the University of London, where he had courses with Harold Laski and developed an interest in politics...
...Rodell...
...That book and friends who admired his fresh, non-stuffy, non-legal writing style, brought him to a year's editorial work with Fortune...
...Judges were Irita Van Doren, editor of the New York Herald-Tribune Weekly Book Review...
...This month's profile is about Fred Rodell, a regular contributor to The Progressive since 1943 whose pieces always arouse a great deal of reader comment...
...Rodell went back to Yale to teach...
...Recently, however, this step-child quietly staT:ed its claim to a permanent seat at the fireside by going off and getting itself picked as one of the outstanding book pages of the country...
...His pet recreations are trout fishing, bridge, tennis (he's an expert), photography, limericks, and his five-year-old son, Michael...
...KENNETH CRAWFORD...
Vol. 9 • October 1945 • No. 43
