The Power and the Prize by Howard Swiggett review
A critical look at Ballantine’s big book The Power and the Prize focuses on Cleves Barwick a 40 year old American metals executive and his England visit to land a revolutionary process. The plot blends corporate intrigue with a Jewish refugee romance and a contrasting scientist subplot. The reviewer notes idealization and moral ambiguity and questions whether honesty and ability always prevail in big business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleves Barwick
American Metals Company
Barwick
England
Mr. Swigget
Menia'l
Six Americans and the search for a culture
R M reviews Paul F Douglass Lives Of Six Americans six portraits from Hoffman Foster Sloan Reuther Spellman Conant map out values shaping a modern culture but prose is dense and repetitive lacking a cohesive synthesis. The critic questions whether a truly significant American culture can emerge from the collision of individual and economic powers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul F. Douglass
Boston
Little, Brown
Douglass
Paul G. Hoffman
Economic Cooperation Administration
Ford Foundation
Studebaker Corp
William Z. Foster
National Committee For the
Communist Party
United States
Alfred P. Sloan Jr
General Motors Corp
Walter Reuther
United Automobile Workers
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Francis Cardinal Spellman
New York
James B. Conant
Harvard University
United State
Germany
Cardinal Spellsman
Korea
Hoffman
Sloan
Conant
Reuther
Foster
Cardinal Spellman
R. M
The Dead Game Sportsmen cartoon collection
VIP Virgil Franklin Parteh presents Dead Game Sportsmen a June publication by Duell Sloan Pearce Litt le Brown in the Old Masters Living Anthropology series. The book uses second hand experiences to show how pursuits of gamesmen sportsmen hunters and fishermen turn into contradictions and far from ideal outcomes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
VIP
Virgil Franklin Parteh
Duell. Sloan & Pearce
Little Brown
Tarawa War Book Reissued for June by Major Publisher
Reissued edition of Tarawa The Story of a Battle by Robert Sherrod will be rewritten in June by Duell Sloan Fearon Little Brown. The work, written by an ace Time and Saturday Evening Post correspondent, chronicles the amphibious land and air operations at Tarawa Island during the Pacific War.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tarawa
Robert Sherrod
Duell, Sloan & Fearce
Little. Brown
Time
Saturday Evening Post
Tarawa Island
A Column on Billy Graham and the Bible’s Earnest Call
A staff writer reflects on Billy Graham’s London plea to read and memorize scripture. The piece traces personal shifts in engaging with the Bible, praises Genesis and the minor prophets, and favors the poetry of Job, Psalms, Song of Solomon, and Ecclesiastes, while noting preference for the Gospels and Acts in the New Testament.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billy Graham
London
Bible School
Job
Orion
Rise in Library Use After New Building Opens
Increased activity shown by the public library after the new building began operating. May figures compare 1954 to 1953 with 640 new names on the lending list and 11 885 books checked out versus 6 808 the prior year. No new books added in May 1953 while 364 titles joined shelves. Neal Austin notes widespread public approval and growing reference work as circulation rises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Neal Austin
Austin
Mystery Magazine Declares U S Debut From Baker Street
The London Mystery Magazine, linked to Britain's Baker Street irregulars, will hit American newsstands this month in authentic gest size for 35 cents. Ziff Davis Publishing Co. will publish it in the U S from original plates with ads for British cigarets tobacco books and gramophone records.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Britain
Baker Street
U. S
Ziff- Davis Publishing Co
Three Neat Stories From British Writer Bates
A Boston review praises H. E. Bates for The Nature of Love, noting three English tales: Duleima a tragic romance of a plain country girl with two lovers, The Grass God about a wealthy man failing in love and marriage, and a Singapore plantation tale with Simpson drawn into a love triangle. The piece commends their neat English clarity, concise storytelling, and originality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. FE. Bates
Boston
Little, Brown & Co
Bates
Dulcima
Singapore
Simpson
Also Mentioned on This Page
Ballantine
Howard Swiggett
Ballentine Books
Lewis
The
Fhessman
Swiggett
Red
Brrwick
Barwick’s
Adverse
N. Main ST
Ook Anter
By Leon Burnett
Robert Marks
Methuselah
Enoch
God
Cain
Abel
Adam
Eve
Ruth
Esther
Hosea
Gomer
Ephraim
Israel
Jesus
John the Baptist
Amos
Tekoa
Beeson Hardware CO
Fred Bryant
Mgr
Doug Bryant
Mayview Manor
Blowing Rock
North Carolina
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