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When wellborn Erica Drake said she was going to marry her Jewish boyfriend, Father Drake howled his head off, Mother Drake wept torrents, the best people were appalled. But Erica stuck, to her guns. First published as a serial in Collier's, 30-year-old Author Graham's study of anti-Semitism in Canada would probably have stirred up more interest if it read more like a novel, less like a studied, romantic essay...
Some notables in both parties showed reluctance to campaign for their own sides. Wendell Willkie, still abed in a Manhattan hospital for a physical checkup, discussed for Collier's the "inadequate" Negro planks in both party platforms. Minnesota's G.O.P. Senator Joseph H. Ball reported his fear that Tom Dewey was not internationalist-minded enough. Said Senator Ball: "I would violate my own deepest conviction if I were at this time ... to campaign for Governor Dewey." And at a newsmen's luncheon in Manhattan, ex-Mayor Jimmy Walker cracked: "Like Farley, I'm still a Democrat...
Round-faced, 210-pound Crockett Johnson dropped his real name, David Johnson Leisk (pronounced Lisk), because he got tired of spelling it out. He began Barnaby while contributing a weekly wordless strip to Collier's. Barnaby is frankly addressed to adults, often surprises Johnson by appealing to children too. The reason, he guesses, is that children like to side with Barnaby Baxter against Mr. and Mrs. Baxter, archetypical pragmatists against whose earthbound minds the Barnaby strip is directed...
...Magnuson story was only another manifestation of unanswered U.S. suspicions that the Pearl Harbor affair may disclose skeletons in Washington closets. The feeling had been, heightened by Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel's reply to a Collier's article by Senator Harry Truman (TIME, Aug. 28). Truman charged that Army and Navy commanders in Hawaii had failed to cooperate, implied that both were heavily responsible...
Senator Harry Truman took the Army and the Navy by the necks last week and knocked their heads together. While a committee of generals and admirals studied plans for a merger of the services, the man who may be vice president after the war told in an article in Collier's why he thought the merger should be a No. 1 postwar...