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...this strange Frenchman, whose psychic moods, personal habits, political methods and achievements strangely resembled Adolf Hitler's, Novelist Aldous Huxley this week published the first biography to be written in English. Father Joseph is an almost perfect subject for Aldous Huxley. The amoral novelist (Antic Hay, Point Counter Point) has become increasingly preoccupied with moral dilemmas (Eyeless in Gaza, Ends & Means) and increasingly a mystic...
...past month, listeners to Manhattan's WHOM have been diverted by the antic notions of Professor Rhinelander Briggs, B.S., billed as the greatest living authority on miscellaneous subjects. He has attacked Communists for introducing the little red hen into the nation's kindergartens, has aired what he claimed were sound effects recorded in the pouch of a kangaroo...
...review Willkie's aims and promises, to affirm that Wendell Willkie could and would keep his promises. They heard of a promise which had not been previously heralded: that Wendell Willkie would give labor full representation in his Government; of "a reasonable hope" that three pro-Willkie, hitherto antiC. I. O. steelmakers (Grace, Girdler, Weir) "will soon execute collective-bargaining contracts with...
...agency devoted solely to industrial work. Mr. Flynn also charged that Consumers Power Co. and Alabama Power Co., both Commonwealth & Southern subsidiaries, were found guilty by NLRB "of interfering with the rights of their employes," that Consumers Power, after signing a contract with C. I. O., launched a "determined antiC. I. O. offensive" which "continued unrelentingly right up to the day the Republicans picked Mr. Willkie, when, by coincidence, the management suddenly began acting with sweet reasonableness...
...goings-on involve the antic humor of dead Uncle Ambrose, who was so crooked, says one of the brand-new gags, he had to be screwed into his grave. To send his grinning ghost into ectospasms, cinemaddicts into delicious shivers, Uncle's post-mortem instructions command his loving heirs to foregather at nightfall in his gloomy mansion amongst the bayous, where they can be scared out of such wits as they possess after being left out of his will. The frolic is furthered by a rubber-masked murderer...