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...could claim to be a close rival of Johnny's. Moreover, Billy represented the modern set, and was rated, according to one arbiter of London society, an "amusing, smart, gay companion with American connections" (after his father's death in 1941, his mother married American Journalist Herbert Agar). Gossips felt that Billy might appeal more to Margaret's volatile character than "quiet and friendly" Dalkeith, who is bored by nightclubs...
...voters they most needed to win. The Democrats knew by heart one simple axiom: a political party should be like a Bowery mission-"everybody welcome." The hard-core Republicans gave the impression of having lost faith in their country. Writing in the current Harper's, liberal Historian Herbert Agar, who calls himself "a potential Republican voter," warned that the voters would never warm to a party that acted like "a sour-faced governess . . . Too many important Republicans now seem to regard the people as dupes who have been suborned by tax money...
Many drastic lineup changes have taken place since last year's won eight-lost ten squad. The team's outstanding one-two punch, Agar and Bullard, has graduated. Charlie Ames and Jay Robb, who played numbers three and six respectively, also saw their final season last spring. Out of the first six singles and doubles players, only one doubles and two singles players returned...
...last statement lies Agar's real assessment of the "price" of American union; the fact that we must sacrifice ideals for realities to stay alive and united. His book also shows that "obstruction, evasion, and well-nigh intolerable slowness" are also necessary concomitants of the American political system. But lest the conditions he adds a reminder that "no matter how high one puts the price of federal union, it is small compared to the price which other continents have paid for disunion, and for the little national states in which parties of principle can live (or more often...
...Agar's illuminating study ends with the true journalist's application of is text to the immediate situation: he suggests that a modern world torn by conflicting ideologies and seeking a compromise "might do worse than study the curious methods by which such assuagements are effected" in the marvelous history of the American republic...