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Than Captain Liddell Hart, no other ten military critics caused more stir in the 20 years following World War I. He studied the campaigns of 1914-18, emerged with the conclusion that the generals on both sides had bungled fantastically: wasted millions of lives, exhausted their national patrimonies, achieved virtually...
$75,000 of Argument. Willkie is an Indiana crackerbox debater in store clothes, and full of intellectual hops. He has an unruly mop of brown hair, a barrel chest, and he stands six feet one in spite of stooping as if he were perpetually leaning over a jury box. When...
Last week the fair grounds were pandemonium, with trucks snorting up to every building and 25,000 workers adding final touches, while a flood of concessionaires including some Seminole Indians stood around ogling (see cut, p. 72). President Whalen boasts, however, that opening day will find the fair about 99...
Hopkins. No paler, no more haggard than usual, Harry Hopkins stepped to the witness chair knowing that, unlike Frankfurter and Murphy, he was going to receive a going-over. With an air of deliberate calm he lit cigaret after cigaret; inhaled deeply; exhaled slowly; looked saturninely at his questioners from...
Their mixed audience of high and low brows heard the performance with mixed emotions, frowned at Bartók's obscure modernisms, guffawed at Goodman's cackling clarinet, but applauded like fans at a cockfight. Soberer pundits grumbled that Bartók's score was a tricky...