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...supposedly about events in the Mississippi of the present and Stone is not writing fantasy. In fact, he goes out of his way to inject as many contemporary references as possible while evading the law of libel and slander. Without in any way acting as an apologist for the South, I am prepared to believe that the governor of Mississippi is not a boozed up old lecher who only did one decent thing in his disgusting life, which...
Most economists of stature smile at the administered-prices argument. John Kenneth Galbraith, Harvard economist, author of the currently popular The Affluent Society, and in no sense an apologist for business, takes the line that a large amount of administered pricing is inherent in the modern economic system. Says he: "Those who deplore it are wasting their breath. The problem is to understand it and to live with it." The overlooked truth that Galbraith and others come back to is that businessmen today cannot operate on prices that run up and down like a boiler-room thermometer. They have...
...Heuss has been marketed over here as a gentle, learned Santa Claus utterly removed from the Krupps, the Thyssens, the Schachts, and all the other industrialists and scientists without whose enthusiastic cooperation World War II would never have been possible . . . The President is, in fact, a skillful apologist for the German people." Cassandra was unmoved by Heuss's contribution of ?5,000 ($14,000) for windows for the rebuilt cathedral of Nazi-blitzed Coventry: "We want no apologetic tips on our national tombs . . . All I want of them is to wait for a generation to pass before they come...
Washingtonians of the 1940s may recall Florida's florid, horse-faced Democratic Senator Claude ("Red"') Pepper with some awe, if not affection. He bounced into the Senate in 1937, bounded from New Deal cause to New Deal cause, for a time became a glib apologist for Russia and a booster for left-winging Henry Wallace-and set an alltime record for getting himself photographed kissing his wife in public places. Defeated in 1950 by Democrat George Smathers,* Pepper repeatedly made comeback promises, and last week he was trying to keep them. His opponent: conservative Democratic Senator Spessard Holland...
Died. Walter Duranty, 73, bald, wooden-legged (from a 1924 train wreck), Pulitzer Prizewinning (1932) New York Times foreign correspondent (1913-39), novelist (One Life, One Kopeck), autobiographer (I Write as I Please), longtime (1921-34) No. 1 Timesman in Russia and No. 1 Russian apologist in the U.S. (when Stalin doomed some 3,000,000 peasants to death from starvation by withholding grain, Duranty wrote: "You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs"); of a stomach ailment; in the Orlando, Fla. hospital where he last week married his second wife, Anna Enwright, widow of a Florida judge...