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September 30, 1944

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books

Katherine Anne Porter

Edmund Wilson

Edmund Wilson’s 1944 review.

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a reporter at large

PATHANS BEHIND THE ROCKS

Ernest O. Hauser

REPORTER AT LARGE about an annual maneuver called the Opening of the Road, put on by the Indian Army stationed in the North-West Frontier Province, where …

profiles

Long After Bligh

John McCarten

PROFILE of Captain Frederick Johnson.

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