Word: clare
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With extreme sadness I note TIME'S apparent change in policy in handling copy on patri otic Americans and their counterparts. Under the title "Sloppy Citizenship," TIME, Nov. 16, referred to Hamilton Fish, C. Wayland Brooks, Clare E. Hoffman and some others as "Fuzzy specimens of Homo politicanus." I loved that phrasing. In a story on Dillard Stokes (Jan. 11), TIME referred to Burton K. Wheeler's attack on this brilliant reporter as a "tribute." Subtly done, I thought...
...Congressmen (TIME, Feb. 22). Outraged Congressmen talked of an investigation of Winchell's Navy service. To stop the bad publicity for the Navy, Frank Knox this week announced that the Navy's best-known lieutenant commander had been put on inactive duty. Michigan's bitter Congressman Clare Hoffman, who had often been Winchellacked, chortled: "No longer will Navy men wince at the spectacle of a Broadway gossiper sporting a lieutenant commander's stripes while he snoops about nightclubs in search of sexy tidbits...
Next day, everybody was talking at once. Parts of the old Isolationist press were delighted. Said Eleanor ("Cissy") Patterson's Washington Times Herald, on page 1: "Clare Boothe Luce, long considered one of our most ardent internationalists, yesterday came home to roost." Delighted also was the stoutly international, Anglophile New York Herald Tribune, which saw in the speech no Isolationist overtones...
Biggest blockbuster to land near Congresswoman Luce came from Britain's acrid, American-born Lady Astor (who six months ago bluntly stated her own view of Britain's self-interest as opposed to Russia): "I was horrified . . . appalled . . . shocked. . . . Clare Luce's 'globaloney' is too smart for me. It's like a very stylish and ridiculous hat. . . . Mrs. Luce does not know what the war is about. . . . People who start out to be sensational usually don't last long...
British reactions at week's end: that the U.S., far from being impotent, was likely to be an all-too-formidable commercial air adversary for Britain when the fighting stops. It had not been a good week for the Brotherhood of Man. Perhaps Clare Luce had started a much-needed process of clearing the atmosphere. Her subject was more important than the speech or its reverberations: it is the key to the whole postwar world. This was just the start of the debate...