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Presents the profile of U.S.-based publisher William Randolph Hearst. Personal background of Hearst; Academic achievements of Hearst; Use of his newspaper "The San Francisco Examiner," in promoting political campaigns; Qualities of distraction in journalism promoted by Hearst; Contribution of Hearst to the field of journalism; Appointment of Sam Chamberlain as the managing editor of the periodical to promote Parisian sentiments as opposed to Anglo-Saxon tradition; Exposure of the connections between politicians and underworld in the periodical; Features of a campaign carried by he periodical against the Southern Pacific, as the dominant and most bitterly hated monopoly in California of that period; Purchase of the "New York Journal," by Hearst; Efforts of Hearst to increase the circulation of the Journal; Support of Hearst to U.S. orator and politician William Jennings Bryan; Amount of profit generated through all of his periodicals; Books recently published describing the life of Hearst.

The article focuses on style of literary biography. The author suggests that biography--and literary biography in particular--has been too much concerned with recitals of fact--the massed chronicle, the overwhelming card index--and not sufficiently concerned with the quality of the lived life. By the quality of the lived life I mean the awarenesses, the intensities, the moments of feeling and depths of experience that constitute the fundamental part of living, that part which people glimpse not so much in a writer's letters, but which is buried in the texture of his work, those inner dreams he has translated with verbal beauty into art--that art which has made him important enough to become the subject of a biography.

The article focuses on a biography on U.S. President Richard M. Nixon by William Costello. When the editors of journal "The New Republic," asked Costello more than a year ago to undertake a definitive study of the Nixon record, they were not in search of pumpkin papers. Many of the particulars were already in print, but the full story had yet to be presented Costello, a Washington political reporter, is a respected veteran in all news media. Although his wide-ranging review of the Nixon career begins at the beginning with boyhood struggles and includes what is perhaps the first complete factual account of his record in Congress and the Vice Presidency, the focus is on Nixon as campaigner

Reflects on the influence of Frederick Jackson Turner's article "The Significance of the Frontier in American History." Use of the term "frontier" in the article lent some countenance to the idea that he was speaking of physical geography rather than social and economic arrangements; Biography of Turner along with details of his academic accomplishment; Influence of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland on his thinking; Conception of American history, which Turner presented in this article at Chicago, Illinois in 1893 contained twelve major elements.

Focuses on the public gathering after the death of former U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt at his house in Hyde Park. Memories of the wife of Roosevelt about her first meeting with Roosevelt and their relationship; Speeches delivered by U.S. Secretary of Interior, Julius A. Krug and President Harry S. Truman; Political achievements of Roosevelt; Types of books read by Roosevelt; Biography of Roosevelt described in the book "Hell-Bent for Election."

Presents information regarding French painter Balthus. His wish to reclaim an Edenic vision of a painting as complete as self-enclosed; Information regarding the photograph "The Children," which tells a lot about Balthus' stand-alone power; Argument that he piles paradoxes high, introducing subversive strains into the classical vision that is itself a subversion of contemporary ideals; Information regarding the book "Balthus: A Biography," by Nicholas Fox Weber.

Focuses on the Italian artist Gianlorenzo Bernini and his 400th anniversary. Reasons behind considering him as the artist of desire and surprise; Commendation of his painting "Four Rivers Fountain" in the Piazza Navona in Rome, Italy; Biographical information about the artist; Discussion of his preparatory drawings; Information on the locations at which most of his art is displayed; Eclipse of Bernini's exuberant sensibility in the century after his death as NeoclassicaI ideas came to dominate European art.

Cites various instances in which privacy invasions are exercised. Criticism of Anna Quindlen's column in the "New York Times"; Invasion of privacy by biographers; Facts of a case filed by John Cheever's widow and children to stop the appearance of a book written about him; Reference to a recent controversy over the corrected text of the book "Ulysses," which appeared in 1986.

Presents a biography of Tuvia Bielsky, a hero during World War II. Information that Bielsky was the head of Bielsky's Brigade, one of the largest Jewish partisan groups in German leader Adolf Hitler's abattoir; Information that he operated in the Byelorussian forests from 1941 to 1944; Information that he ambushed the murderers, and destroyed their installations, and blew up the bridges that would have led them to more innocent blood, and punished their collaborators.

The article features novelist James Agee. Agee is talented and crafty at finding expressions for the various ideas and visions that pressed upon him. Ross Spears' film about the life and work of Agee was released in 1979. The film "Agee" makes the documentary camera a powerful instrument of literary biography. The last part of the film is devoted to Agee's short, luminous, still influential career as a reviewer, scriptwriter, even bit actor. The secular side of Agee is tackled. His contribution to journalism is also addressed.

Focuses on photographer Alfred Stieglitz. Information on the works of Stieglitz; Description of the book "Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs and Writings," by Sarah Greenough and Juan Hamilton; Information on the biography "Stieglitz: A Memoir/Biography," written by Stieglitz's niece, Sue Davidson Lowe; Accomplishment made by Stieglitz; Information on his painting "Georgia Engelhard," displayed at the National Gallery exhibition.

Presents an essay from the British Labor party leader Michael Foot's work Debts of Honor. Comment on novels written by Daniel Defoe; Report that no one believed that Defoe would surpass in fame all the other great men of the age; Claim that half his life he seemed to be bombarding ministers with farseeing schemes for new trading projects; Report that those biographers of Defoe who try to wipe away the dirt from his political apostasies and subterfuges cannot adequately explain the glorious flowering of his final years.

This article presents information on the book "The Prince and I," by Marvine Howe. The story of the author's friendship with the prince during the tense years of 1952 and 1953 is the central theme in Marvine Howe's recently published book, "The Prince and I." The author went to the shining new building of Radio Maroc to meet Howe. They talked until her program time. Then the author listened as she interpreted the news in English for the non-French, speakers at the American air force bases, played them a half hour of the newest American jazz. Howe also helped script a morning program to familiarize American military personnel with Morocco.

This article presents information on the book "Susan B. Anthony," by Katherine Anthony. As this fine biography proves time and time again, it took more than howling men to keep Anthony from fighting to get for women that freedom in dress and politics which men had long since won. It is well to be reminded that, if women can walk down a beach today with not enough of a swimming suit to show up on their shadow, then it was because such people as Anthony defied the jeers of men to wear a short skirt over long bloomers on city streets. One of the virtues of this book is that it gives an adequate account of Anthony's ancestry and family, a remarkable group of people with a will almost as strong as hers and an idealism almost as great.

Focuses on the life of American playwright Eugene O'Neill. Turning point of the career of O'Neill; Inspirations and influences of O'Neill for writing his plays; Vagabond life of O'Neill from different places; Heydays of the plays of O'Neill as the undisputed leader in American theater; Genres of O'Neill's repertoire of plays such as "Beyond the Horizon," "Desire Under the Elms," and "The Great God Brown"; Facts and summary of his works "The Hairy Ape," "Welded O'Neill," and "Lazarus Laughed."

Presents information about the life work of writer Georg Morris Brandes. Two speeches delivered by him at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, on different occasions; Information that he has never written to order, he has written only on those themes that have been congenial to him; First book on Hip-po-lyte Adolphe Taine; Book on Sören Kirkegaard, the Danish philosopher who has had such a profound influence on Danish thought; His treatise on Lassalle, a work on which he himself lays great stress and which is widely regarded as one of his very best; Biographies of Shakespeare, Goethe, Voltaire, Julius Caesar, and Michael Angelo, each in two volumes, heavily documented, richly illustrated, immensely suggestive; Migration to Germany.

This article presents information about the book "The Man Behind Roosevelt," by Lela Stiles. Any good American biography is likely to be a bit of American history--a view of the portion of the American scene within the subject's dates. The way of life, the locale, customary forms of recreation, the social patterns inherited and made--striking personalities encountered, all these, as the setting for the life and work of the subject of a biography, combine to add to the historical knowledge and general appreciation of the period in which he lived.

Reflects on the first installment of a document that discusses the story of German dictator Adolf Hitler seen through the eyes of Hitler's close associate Reinhold Hanisch; Depiction of that phase of Hitler when he was spending his days of desperate poverty in a municipal lodging-house in Vienna, Austria; Association between Hanisch and Hitler as they worked together making and peddling picture postcards; Description of the circumstances that led to the formation of a brutal dictator for all times; Account of the German song "Die Wacht am Rhein," that details Hitler's fascination for the Reich.

Presents an account from the author's memoirs of Irish playwrights Lady Gregory and George Moore. Literary knowledge and style of Lady Gregory; Family background of Gregory; Relationship of Gregory with Irish people; Establishment of the Irish Literary Society in London, England by the author; Opportunity given by a new generation of critics and writers to denounce the propagandist verse and prose that had gone by the name of Irish literature; Aspirations of the author for an Irish theater; Reference to the play "The Cat and the Moon" on Moore and his cousin Edward Martyn; Characteristics of Moore; Appreciation of Moore's novel "A Mummer's Wife."

Focuses on the socio-political updates related to the U.S. Information on coal code that represent a compromise on nearly every important detail except the insistence on genuine collective bargaining; Reports that wages are so low, the hours so long, that they hold out little substantial hope of additional employment; Abandonment of the plan to have wages which are already higher than the minimum increased; Discussion on the policy of independent and aggressive trade unionism; Importance of Austro-German conflict; Lynching of three Negroes near Tuscaloosa, Alabama; Publication of a biography of Andrew W. Mellon, by Harvey O'Connor.

Presents letters to the editor referencing articles and topics published in previous issues. "Can Chavez Cope With Success?," by Joel Solkoff; Reference of the book "Cezar Chavez: Autobiography of La Causa," by Jacques Levy.

Comments on the personality of former U.S. President George Washington. Character of Washington as sketched by his biographers; Public relation qualities in Washington; Information on his accomplishments when he was President of the U.S.

Focuses on the life and works of dramaturge Kenneth Tynan in the U.S. Information on his family background; Accomplishments and contributions of Tynan in theater; Reference to his first book "He That Plays the King"; Efforts of Tynan towards sexual freedom; View that he is the finest drama critic after George Bernard Shaw; Information on Kathleen Tynan's new biography of her husband "The Life of Kenneth Tynan."

Discusses the important books of the memoirs of the late French novelist Anatole France. Impression of Jean-Jacques Brousson and Jacques Le Goff that there was something wrong with France in his later years; Personality of France according to his biographers; Criticisms of Dadaists on France as a cynic and to the point was ridiculed the details of his illness and death; Representations of France as a kindly skeptic and fastidious connoisseur of ideas before the Alfred Dreyfus and is socially conscious and interested in the contemporary life after the case; Themes and subjects of the last few books of France suggests extreme harshness and pessimism; Visions of France on the future; Assertion of the author that France is the perfect representative of nineteenth century France.

Focuses on John Aubrey, an English biographer and antiquarian. Difficulties faced by Aubrey in his academic period; Interruption of his studies at the Trinity College, Oxford, by the Civil Wars; Support given by his friends in his difficult times; Discovery of the hitherto unknown Druidical temple of Avebury; Information on the book "Athenae Oxonienses," a biography; Characteristics of Aubrey's writing skills.

Focuses on the life of Charles Greville, the famous political diarist of all times. Report that his straddler life stretched from 1794 to 1865, so that the active part of it was almost equally divided between two periods of extraordinary discordance, the period of George the Fourth and that of Queen Victoria; Report that his diary, which filled ninety-one small quarto volumes, was published in three installments, in 1874, 1885 and 1887, by Henry Reeve, Greville's friend and colleague; Information on three kinds of omissions--scandalous stories which might have given pain to persons then living, observations upon the writer's private affairs, and reflections upon the character and conduct of Queen Victoria; Reaction of the people on the memoirs of Greville; Information of his lineage, career, and the lifestyle; Report that his transition from fashion to politics was accomplished during the agitations of the Reform bill; View that his portraits with their sobriety of tone and precision of outline resemble very fine engravings and will prove perhaps the most enduring portions of his book.

This article focuses on the literary works of author Edward Morgan Forster with reference to his book "Marianne Thornton: A Domestic Biography (1797-1887)." Forster who, incidentally got his first given name by a lapse of memory at the christening, was born in 1879. Thus he was able as a small boy to see and hear much of his great-aunt, Marianne Thornton, Aunt Monie to her family, who was born late in the 18th Century and did not die till 1887. Marianne lived on, strangely, she never married, she was a woman of some property, good-looking, vivacious, amusing, and perhaps, with some tendency to self-assurance and all-knowingness.

This article presents information on the book "The Great Goldwyn," by Alav Johnston. This is a biography of U.S. motion picture producer Sam Goldwyn. This book has made the author slightly sick. It has the slave brand of Hollywood upon it. Instead of being able simply to present Sam Goldwyn as the rich humorous character he undoubtedly is with whatever credit for energy and enterprise he deserves, Johnston seems to feel forced to flatter him. Johnston, who is an adept at this kind of personal sketch, has handled his subject with deftness. He has turned out a good piece of light reading, in which the Goldwyn gags are sprinkled in such a way as to give the whole story a certain comic sparkle.

Presents several letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in the previous issues. Comment on student protest and revolt on school and college campuses; Highlight of errors contained in the printing of the author's review of Baker's Hemingway biography; Comment on the authorization to spend $75,000 of taxpayers money on preliminary engineering for the proposed ABM construction in this state; Comment on the article "The Vicious Acronyms," by Ralph Lapp, published in the June 21 issue.

Focuses on the life and works of nun Mees Macy through the mouth of citizens of Venice, Italy where she lived for forty years. Achievements of Mees Macy through the architectural skills possessed by her; Overview of the life of Macy in Venice and her friends; Influence that Macy has on the lives of other citizens of Venice; Comments on the biography entitled "The Nun of Ca Frollo," written by two of Macy's friends Clementine Bachelor and Jesse Orr.

The article focuses on the life and works of English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy. He is seen as having not enough admiration for himself to record his recollections and not enough interest in himself to brood over his character. He was forced to agree that a story of himself must be written and it was written in the book "The Early Life of Thomas Hardy," by Florence Emily Hardy. He also wrote the satirical novel "Desperate Remedies."

Presents information on French literature related to military history and wars. Information on the book "Man's Hope," written by French writer André Malraux; Description of Spanish-American war in the book; Literary style of Malraux; Views of Malraux on Christianity; Storyline of the book "Soundings," Biography of war veteran Georges Bernanos' life described in the book "Great Cemeteries Under the Moon"; Aristocratic attitude of Bernanos towards wars in Spain; Features of the book "Olympics," depicting hatred of the author towards the bourgeois world; Promotion of anti-religion sentiment in "Olympics."