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...radiant little family group, Andrei Y. Vishinsky, 70, his wife Kapitolina and statuesque daughter Zinaida, flanked by three bodyguards, stepped off the liner Queen Mary in Manhattan, where Vishinsky will soon take up his cudgel again as chief Soviet delegate to the U.N. At first, Vishinsky claimed that he had no arrival speech prepared. But when newsmen cajoled him, he beamed and shyly drew out a little slip of paper. Sample: "I should like to express my hope that the American press, radio and other organizations will support the efforts of all honest men in their struggle for peace, international...
...squeezed as no victorious nation has ever been before and disillusioned almost beyond endurance, he has been welcomed with an exuberance that almost makes us blush behind our precious Anglo-Saxon reserve. I never thought that friendliness had such a sharp cutting edge. I never thought that simplicity could cudgel us so damned hard. We live and learn...
...Camino Real, they seem modern and Mexican. The scene is a fortresslike, claustrophobic public square featuring such darkly symbolic places as a luxury hotel, a flophouse, a brothel, a pawnshop, and such darkly symbolic figures as a callous worldling who spits on common humanity, Storm-Trooperish policemen who cudgel it, street cleaners who cart its bodies off to the city dump. Around an arriving young American prizefighter with a bad heart flow loan sharks, plutocrats, cooch dancers, madams, homosexuals, a Casanova on his uppers, a Camille who herself must buy love, a Lord Byron who escapes to Greece...
...Post's circulation gimmick has snowballed. Recently, library employees signed a petition which asked that the "subversive" literature be kept in the library, and the Boston newspaper began swinging its cudgel again. Continued attack has caused Judge Frank Donahue, a trustee of the library, to say he will demand an investigation. And if the Post keeps up the way it has, many of these employees who are not covered by civil service may lose their jobs through political pressure...
...Devil's Advocate, bestselling Novelist Caldwell (This Side of Innocence, Dynasty of Death) has laid aside her wand of romance and taken up the cudgel of politics from what can only be described as a new position, the Neanderthal Right. The only other remarkable thing about Devil's Advocate is that, in its first five weeks, it sold nearly 35,000 copies and according to Retail Bookseller, was the bestselling novel in the U.S. for a week...