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...cock-simple way of simplifying spelling was proposed last week in the London Times. Arising out of a discussion of Basic English (TIME, Aug. 16; Sept. 20), a letter-to-the-editor purported to quote the great Elizabethan, pipe-smoking Sir Walter Raleigh, who spelled his name three different ways (Ralegh, Rauleygh, Rauley) but never Raleigh. "Sir Walter's" simple suggestion: spell any way you like...
...Willkie is as bold as he is clever. He has influence and a following within the party not likely to be ignored. He will not permit it to be. . . . Republican leaders as a rule don't like Willkie. They never have. They mistrust him as another 'big cock of the roost,' stubbornly bent on having his own way, with contempt for all others whether of high degree or low, if you are not as smart as he is. But what to do about him? . . . Impossible to ignore Willkie; highly dangerous to defy him. For he is dynamite...
...Alfred Dudley Pickman Rogers Pound, 66, Britain's First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff from May 1939 to last Oct. 4; some six weeks after being taken ill while returning from the Quebec Conference; in London. Son of an English lawyer and Boston-born mother, cock-hatted, hawk-faced Sir Dudley commanded a man-of-war at Jutland, later helped set up Britain's convoy system. In World War II he brilliantly organized supplies, blockades...
Panassie is a much maligned person, and not without justification, but he does have his virtues. The trouble is for every paragraph of descriptive writing, which is where he really shines, you have to wade through morasses of decidedly cock-eyed opinions...
...white-robed, white-gloved, white-carnationed Negro choir on the gold-&-blue velveted stage let go with Hallelujah! Hallelujah! The pianist took off. The congregation began to clap to. the beat. The clarinet rode away from the melody. A little old Negro woman, her wrinkled neck twitching like a cock's comb, sprang into the air and screamed. All over "the auditorium black heads bobbed ecstatically as if mounted on pogo sticks. From the stage rose the voice of the evangelist: "Let me hear them screams, pilgrims! Let me hear...