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...Clapper is a middle-sized man with wise eyes, stooped shoulders, and a burning conviction that journalism is the most important profession in the world. In themselves, these attributes would not make him unique. The quality that long ago lifted Scripps-Howard's Clapper out of the ruck of columnists is his knack of translating some event into sound sense on the very day that people want to hear about it. Somehow he manages to move mentally a half-step faster than the mass mind. Farmers rocking on their porch chairs in the evening, clubmen lounging beside an afternoon...
Last week Mr. Clapper made up his mind what the fight was about, pecked his findings into his dilapidated typewriter: "The sharp difference between Willkie and the New Deal centres on the place of capitalism in our national life. Roughly, Willkie believes private capitalism can carry the ball alone. New Dealers believe private capitalism alone is inadequate and that public spending must supplement it. The more extreme New Dealers go even further and question whether private capitalism is not a waning influence destined not to disappear perhaps but to play a far less controlling part in our national life...
...only Ray Clapper but the U. S. had gradually learned what sort of a strange, uncompromising, unpolitical rugged character the G. O. P. had nominated...
...best-which is implicit rather than fully achieved in his latest book-his poetry has the shapeliness and poise of a massive bell, from which a slowly swinging clapper booms out a message that all free men will understand...
...strong people; to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, fine; to the Baltimore Sun, thoughtful; the Chicago Daily News (which last week dropped the name of its owner, Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox from its masthead called it a courageous speech and came out for Willkie for President. Columnist Ray Clapper asserted that people were filled with pain and disappointment at the bad delivery, judged Willkie "by the Roosevelt standard of radio crooning," but changed their minds if they read the speech. "Not many major political utterances in modern times have rung with such courage as this Willkie acceptance speech...