City readers urged to back unity against invaders Thursday
Letter from John Bell Williams urges Mississippians to unite against intruders. The writer critiques fallout shelters arguing social, economic, moral and spiritual grounds against the plan. He cites Dr. John F. Anderson Jr and Rev Glenn Smiley and questions practicality and faith.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glenn Smiley
Denton
Texas
John F. Anderson, Jr
Orlando
Fla
Anderson
God
Christ Jesus
Lord
The Good Guy Dream in Wartime Reflections
William L. Moore recounts a history of conflicting duties and ideals from grocery work to war era politics. He recalls anti trust indictments, patriotic calls to enlist, and shifting beliefs about democracy, aggression, and what constitutes true goodness in society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
China
Berlin
Korea
Suez
Bay of Pigs
East
William L. Moore
Proletarian novel contest winner mocked by critics
A lengthy critique surveys The New Masses and John Day Company contest winning Marching Marching for an American proletarian theme. It traces 1930s literary trends, noting Roth and Weatherwax among writers navigating ideology and art, and questions the novel’s social consciousness amid sexual innuendo and political shifts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Masses
John Day Company
Miss Weatherwax
Comintern
Popular Front
John Steinbeck
Dos Passos
Farrell
Henry Roth
Weatherwax
Hemingway
The
New Republic
Roth
Eda Lou Walton
Nation
John Peale Bishop
Thomas Wolfe
Weltschmerz
Angel
Daniel Fuchs
Blenholt
Nathanael West
West
Maine
Yaddo
Horace Gregory
Ben Belitt
Brownsville
East Side
New York
David Levinsky
Theodore Dreiser
Petal Paper enters new mailing area and office details
The Petal Paper announces re entry at Montgomery with a March 1 boarding, listing subscription terms for annual rates. It notes office staff and the box address in Petal, Mississippi, with East editor and subscription details per year.
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MI Jomery
Mont Gesle
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Antioch Bookplate CO
Yellow Springs
Ohio
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