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...grab-bag gossips as Don Iddon (in the Mail) and C. V. R. Thompson (in the Express). Without such serious correspondents as Sir Willmott Lewis of the Times and Alistair Cooke, the Manchester Guardian's man at U.N., and the shrewd jotters of the "American Survey" in Geoffrey Crowther's Economist, an American in London would feel hopelessly cut off from home...
Died. Samuel Crowther, 67, veteran journalist, pamphleteer, literary collaborator (My Life and Work, Today and Tomorrow, Edison As I Know Him, all with Henry Ford; Men and Rubber, with Harvey Firestone); after long illness; in Boston...
Editor Geoffrey Crowther of London's influential Economist had confidently sent a girl to do a man's job. He told Barbara Ward to spend a couple of months in the U.S., find out what was on the U.S. mind, and then write a series about it. Brisk and brilliant Barbara Ward, who at 32 is a kind of younger, softer-voiced, English edition of Dorothy Thompson, went at it in a big way. Her research project turned into a coast-to-coast lecture tour, with radio dates and extra speeches thrown in. She gave as many interviews...
...first book, at 24, The International Share-Out, caught Editor Crowther's eye in 1938; she has written for his Economist off & on ever since, and is now assistant editor on foreign affairs. On the BBC "Brains Trust" program (the English equivalent of Information Please) Laborite Barbara was one participant who never said "I don't know." Audiences loved her for her quiz-kid memory. Between broadcasts she lectured on politics and economics, labored for the liberal Roman Catholic "Sword of the Spirit" movement...
...York's serious-minded critics had as much to say about the success of movies as they do about legitimate stage attempts, "The Big Sleep" would already be mouldering in its grave. Crowther and company slashed at it for "incoherence" as they gave it thumbs down with a typical sneer. What they failed to comprehend was that this latest Bogart-Bacall opus thrills while it confuses and is likely to leave its audiences just as interested as bewildered...