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Congratulations . . . It comes as a welcome relief to find someone brave enough to suggest that with all its clamor and clangour there is possibly a word to be said for New York City...
...Just before the payoff in Philadelphia, some brave experts made their final prophecies. Of 815 newspaper editors polled by the U.S. News, 417 expected Senator Arthur Vandenberg to get the nomination, 271 hoped he would. Jim Farley predicted "a deadlock between Dewey and Taft. If they get together, one of them will be the nominee. If they don't, you'll see Vandenberg in there...
...terms in which he conceives the role. But the conception is in some important ways limited. It is clear that Olivier has a laudable distaste for the pompous, the pansy and the pathological Princes who have so often dishonored the poem. He sees-and plays -Hamlet as a brave, resolute, delicate-souled man who was required, as Goethe said, to do the one thing on earth which happened to be impossible for that particular man to do. But Olivier hardly begins to suggest why (nobody has ever done more than suggest it), and he does not richly enough suggest...
...asked to dedicate the airport. None of the traveling White House secretariat bothered to check on the name of the citizen for whom the field was being named. Gravely, the President began: "I'm honored to dedicate this airport, and present this wreath to the parents of the brave boy who died fighting for his country...
...nodded with visions of what lay ahead-the Continent of bad plumbing, charm, great ruins, inflation, cancan and the cutest little French restaurant just around the corner. There were some references to crisis and even war. "My dear," said a woman in dark sunglasses, "I do think you are brave...