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...Kohr to disagree with Professor Chafee's sensible statement of the duty of the citizen to cooperate with his government is but to carp with the law as it has stood since the founding of the Republic. To state that it is the duty of the citizen to appear before congressional committees is only to state that it has always been the right of the government to compel him to do so. This is old stuff, beyond cavil, and common knowledge to anyone concerned with the workings of American government...
There is nothing to carp about in this picture. The stars are superb, the story sensational, and the scenery simple. The color blends instead of blares. The dialogue is droll and dramatic in proper turn. I have nothing but praise...
...some critics carp and sneer...
...first time was in July, at the Chicago convention of the National Association of Music Merchants. Typical of the winning guesses were the communities of Rough and Ready, Calif.; Goose Egg, Wyo.; Carp, Nev. and Hungry Horse, Mont. We turned out to be wrong about Hungry Horse, because we'd used some outdated Montana subscriber lists at our "post office" display. (Hungry Horse is on the lists used in Minneapolis this week...
...Texas river bottoms the sweet gum trees were tinged with yellow. At night, deer jumped the wire fences to nibble at the heavy-headed sorghum. The rivers ran low and clear, and yellow cats, black bass, carp and perch sailed lazily in their depths, too fat to bother with baited hooks. In northern Michigan, the bow & arrow boys, 18,000 strong, patiently honed their two-and three-bladed arrows, tentatively twanged their 5O-lb. bows, got out their brown-and-green camouflage suits, the grease paint and burnt cork for blacking their faces while stalking the wary deer...