Halfway through the war a hopeful newcomer called Transatlantic appeared on British newsstands. The magazine's angel was brisk Allen Lane, well-to-do publisher of Penguin Books, who thought (quite correctly) that 50,000 Britons would gladly pay a shilling a month to get a good, candid look at their U.S. allies.
Chubby, brilliant Geoffrey Crowther, editor of the influential Economist, agreed to mind the war baby in his spare time. The U.S. Writers' War Board chipped in with some top U.S. bylines, writing for peanuts and patriotism.
Last week, after 28 months of this patronage, digest-size...
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