Word: baits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ERNEST Bevin would often remark that his one nightmare was lest the Americans should once again fall for the Russian bait [of appeasement]. "If the two of them gang up, there will be nothing left for anyone else." This may prove to be the broad outline of Geneva. Americans and Russians find it easy to jettison one set of principles and try another. British politicians, particularly British Socialists, are not so adaptable. Yet, if we read the meaning of Geneva aright, the feat must be undertaken...
...that Bungo Pete has sunk the Walrus, skippered by his former executive officer. With a fury worthy of Melville's Captain Ahab, Richardson takes another submarine straight to Bungo Pete's lair. One stormy night he lures Pete out, torpedoes Pete's tincan and his sucker-bait freighter, and to make vengeance dead sure, rams and sinks all lifeboats. Even when the yarn runs right away with him, Author Beach keeps jamming in the authentic details, the tingling stress, the sweaty crush, of the submariners' war. This is he-man's, seaman's, reading...
...haggling about Stalin's price; he got all he asked, without argument. Roosevelt apparently welcomed the expansion of Russian power in the Western Pacific. Behind Churchill's back, Roosevelt offered Stalin participation in a Korean trusteeship from which Roosevelt proposed to exclude Britain; Stalin disdained the bait. Behind Chiang Kai-shek's back, Roosevelt gave Stalin his view of China's internal strife: "The fault lay more with the Kuomintang [Chiang's party] . . . than with the so-called Communists." Stalin did not argue. If this was Roosevelt's view, then world Communism would know...
ROUGH WINDS OF MAY, by Nancy Hallinan (425 pp.; Harper; $3.95), is a first novel that leaps like a trout with lust for life. A canny angler, Novelist Hallinan, 34, uses enough bait for three regulation novels: 1) the English family, full of cooings, cluckings, crises and crumpets, 2) the adolescent caterpillar sprouting the butterfly wings of maturity, 3) the Panlike pipings of Bohemia competing with the dull drill calls of middle-class life. Novelist Hallinan's Pan is a fat, wheezing, believable genius named Jubial Kerr who huffs and puffs rude reality into Rough Winds...
Although the nation's Better Business Bureaus and legitimate advertisers are battling the baiters, they have found it hard to make fraud charges stick so long as the sharpie actually has a cheap product for sale. Radio and television stations have been slow to ban bait ads, say that it is impossible to check every advertiser. One of the best ways to end bait advertising was used by Denver's Better Business Bureau. It hired a man with a sandwich board ("Don't get hooked by phony wholesale offers") to parade outside the advertiser's store...