The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-03-01
A LITTLE OF THIS AND
A DASH OF THAT

A LITTLE OF THIS AND
A DASH OF THAT
JOHN GUNTHER, whose three
"Insides" Europe, Asia, and Latin
America) were all Book of the
Month Club selections with a mil
lion and half copies sold, is now
working on INSIDE THE US.A., to
be published In 1916. In the mean
time he has tried his hand at a
novel, THE TROUBLED MID
NIGHT, a modern story of love and
conflict in Constantinople. You car
get it soon at the library.
JAMES HILTON'S new novel SO
WELL TO BE REMEMBERED is
the life story of the mayor of a
small English industrial town be
fore, between and during the two
World Wars" No definite date has
been set for its publication.
KATHERINE ANN PORTER
whose PALE HORSE, PALE RIDER
you probably remember, had her
latest book THE LEANING TOWER
published recently. She is now in
Hollywood under contract as a
writer to MGM. More surprised
about the whole thing than any
one else, she says she is still dazed
but likes it all tremendously
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE'S new
play is about women in wartime
and she plans, at the present, to
call it ULYSSES, MY LOVE.
GLENWAY WESCOTTS novel
APARTMENT IN ATHENS and
Richard Wright's BLACK BOY are
the March dual selections of the
Book -of-the- Month Club. APART
MENT IN ATHENS was originally
about family in Paris during the
Nazi occupation. After the French
capital was liberated the locale was
changed to Greece. "Since that
time, Of course, Athens has been
freed-if you can call what has
been going on there of late freedom
but Wescott refused to rewrite the
book again" You can't blame him
We all hope he wouldn't be safe to
locate it in Norway, either.
EDGAR SNOW, whose PEOPLE
ON OUR SIDE is the new "Impera-
tive" named by the Council on
Books in Wartime, has just returned
from Moscow. He has nearly COM
pleted the manuscript of his next
volume, to be called RUSSIA IN
VADES EUROPE. 1t will be pub
lished late this spring. Incl
dentally Cynthia Test of the Council
on Books in Wartime writes me
that their program, WORDS AT
WAR, may be heard every Tuesday
night at 1870 p. m. over WEAF. ]
had lost track of it since the time
change in the fall.
LINCOLN-WITH A TWINKLE
I saw two Of my favorite Lincoln
stories reprinted this month. So
in case you missed them, I'll pass
them on to you.
"Coronet" reprinted this one:
Somehow or other a book sales
man managed to get in to see Pres
ident Lincoln. Cautiously the
President glanced through the book
Then he shook his head.
but won't you write a recon-
mendation of the volume which will
help me sell 1t to others?' suggested
the salesman when he saw Lincoln
was not interested.
Perhaps I can do that agreed
the President. And he wrote, Any
one who likes this kind of book will
find this just the kind of book he
likes"
Bennett Cert, in the Saturday
Review Of Literature" included this
one. not so apropos Our subject but
none-the-less delightful, in hi;
column:
Lincoln was once asked by g
New York firm for information Oh
the financial condition of one of hi;
neighbors He obliged with the fol-
lowing: Yours of the 10Th instant
received. I am well acquainted
with Mr.. @. and know his cir
cunStanceS. First of all, he has q
wife and baby; together they ought
to be worth $4,000 to any man
Secondly, he has an office in which
there is a table worth $50 and
three chairs, worth, say 81. Last
Of all there is in one corner large