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Clementine Paddleford, an angular, friendly and fortyish spinster, is "food markets editor" of the New York Herald Tribune. Last week, sniffing some savory news from afar, she flew out to Fulton, Mo. to see what was cooking, sliced herself a cut of the Churchill-Truman story...
...other works so long relegated to the limbo of forgotten music. Only Bach has escaped the dense fog of obscurity that surrounds almost every composer before Haydn. It is lamentable enough that such acknowledged masters as Palestrina, Scarlatti, Corelli, Vivaldi, Purcell, and Boccherini should be worshipped from afar but rarely heard in American concert halls...
...thousand success stories of those gaudy days. . . . I, who knew less of [New York] society than any hall-room boy in a Ritz stagline, was pushed into the position not only of spokesman for the time but of the typical product." Actresses whom he had worshipped from afar now eagerly lunched at his apartment. When he stepped into a public fountain in the small hours, the gossip columns turned the splash into a tidal wave. The morning after a mild argument with a cop, he read: "Fitzgerald Knocks Officer This Side of Paradise." It was a life which passed incessantly...
...been com- petitive squawks: the San Francisco Chronicle protested the Times's use of A.P. wirephoto for the Times's private benefit. Facsimile also has posed a leading question: what good is an expensive local A.P. franchise if other publishers with A.P. news can muscle in from afar? (While making up its mind about these issues, the A.P. let the Times go ahead with its experiment.) It costs the Times about $1,000 a day to pass out 2,000 free copies a day to conference delegates. In return, the Times is getting a lot of good will...
...Stop Me, "even claim to understand the intricacies of Miss Stein's prose style. But millions admire her rugged and magnificent personality." Pennsylvania-born Gertrude Stein has now lived out one world war and most of a second in her adopted France, viewed many another war from afar in the course of her 71 years. Wars I Have Seen, which she claims that even Publisher Cerf should be able to understand, is mostly about the present war. It is, naturally, very different from other war books. Few terrible things happened in the quiet villages of Bilignin and Culoz, where...