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Bevin's plug for an imperial customs union warmed at least one Tory heart. When Arch-Imperialist Lord Beaverbrook, publisher of the Daily Express, heard of Bevin's remarks, he chuckled: "By God, I think I'll go right down to Transport House [Trade Union headquarters] and join the union...
Rainbow's Start. It was not the humble swamp from which the Argentine rainbow first rose that earned her the haughty looks of B.A.'s aristocrats; it was the murky clouds through which she had climbed to arch so gracefully over their heads...
When such competent radio writers as Norman Corwin and Arch Oboler have been allowed to write without sponsors' restrictions, they have sometimes turned out radio plays that were worth hearing. This week another trained radio scripter was given his head. Blind, 42-year-old Hector Chevigny used it better, in some respects, than his better-known predecessors. His formula: "I'm just trying to tell a good story...
With the first sentence of his first script, Hollenbeck started ragging the rags, especially the Scripps-Howard World-Telegram, the arch-conservative Sun and Hearst's Journal-American for "the great ink-letting which resulted from the disclosure that a number of New York City families on relief had been housed in hotels...
...Montparnasse cafe table in 1922 with Sinclair Lewis, "arch-progenitor ... of the stenographic, Pullman-smoker school of writing" [TIME, May 12], I do not remember that "every [American] expatriate eye turned icily away." Quite the contrary. Those eyes welcomed him as a prosperous bestseller, and with a few ragged introductions, the self-invited guests started pushing tables together. The saucers recording the prices of the drinks rose higher & higher, and so did the comments on the shameful commercialism of writing books like Main Street and Babbitt. Mr. Lewis was extraordinarily patient, but finally called for the bill-suddenly all chairs...