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Courteous & Clinical. Anthropologist Gorer has spent seven years in the U.S. with British wartime missions and on the staffs of the Rockefeller Foundation and the Yale Institute of Human Relations. In comparison with the old tobacco-spitting attacks of the great English travelers -Dickens, Trollope, Captain Basil Hall -The American People is refined and respectful. Yet its cool and clinical air reveals at times an underlying dislike which may be more destructive than the old quarrel between eagle-screaming Americans, whooping that they could lick the world, and haughty British remittance men sneering at them for spitting on the floors...
...employers and their conscience as craftsmen. Supporting players are given to lines like "Yon storm'll be upon us main soon."*Others merely curtsy, mew incoherently or tug their forelocks. For what it is worth-a middling curdler-the whole thing was much better done in 1937 by Basil Rathbone and Ann Harding...
...made the charge was the Most Rev. Basil Ladyka, Ukrainian Bishop of Canada. Specially trained Canadian Communists, said he, have been posted in key Canadian centers under orders from Moscow to "confuse and discourage" incoming D.P.s. They work in teams, he said. Some Communists meet incoming D.P.s on the piers at eastern ports. Others contact them on their trains as they head for their new homes. The Communists constantly harass the immigrants, said Bishop Ladyka, and try to bribe them to return to Europe. They tell the immigrants "that they have been 'exported' here for slave labor." They...
...series; Peter Lind Hayes' Genie, the Magic Record (Decca); Sterling Holloway's Uncle Remus Stories (Decca); The Little Engine That Could (Victor); Dinah Shore's Bongo (Columbia). Older kids can hear Lionel Barrymore's reading of Dickens' A Christmas Carol (MGM) or shiver to Basil Rathbone's Oliver Twist (Columbia...
...frost, mint and sweet basil...