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...making of a literary reputation, as in most other enterprises, it pays to advertise. Many writers (e.g., Bernard Shaw, William Saroyan) do much of the advertising themselves: each time their talents burst into flower they let off such chesty bugle notes of self-satisfaction that only the coldest, boldest critic dares to play deaf. But there are other good writers who bloom in silence, leaving it to the critics to sniff them out, though it may take years to place them in their proper niches...
...Moonlight, by W. Stanley Moss. How a handful of British agents kidnaped a German general under the eyes of his garrison in Crete; a high-spirited account of one of the boldest stunts of the war, by one of the Britons who brought it off (TIME, Sept...
...Ford. It was the longest and roughest course in auto racing. Argentine papers flashed headlines on a crash 375 miles outside Buenos Aires, and another in Bolivia's mountains (where one car plunged over a 600-foot precipice, killing driver and mechanic). But the boldest type was reserved for the Gálvez brothers, Oscar and Juan, who were whisking around dangerous hairpin turns as if they had designed them. Oscar, in his red Ford with Viva Perón painted on it, won the first leg from B.A. to Salta, and then the second and third legs. Argentine...
...believe that this attempt to make ideas alone the subject of criminal prosecution is the boldest attempt at thought-control ever proposed in this state. It is a clear denial of our constitutional rights...
World War II's boldest plot-that-failed has been reported, but never as fully as in Germany's Underground. Its preliminaries, principals and political aims are now described by Manhattan Lawyer Allen W. Dulles (younger brother of State Department Adviser John Foster Dulles), who was the wartime OSS chief in Switzerland. Obviously Dulles thought the assassination plot of great importance; the OSS in Switzerland had learned of it through "secret channels" long before it came off, repeatedly advised Washington of its importance. But Allied headquarters dismissed the plot as trifling and, says Dulles, "the plotters received...