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Nazism is nowhere deader than in West Berlin; the city has elected Jewish widow, whose husband and children died in the concentration camps, as a delegate to the Bundesrepublik's parliament. the miniscule German Party's anti-Semitic rally of a few months ago drew immediate and hearted public protest...
...shown itself. Cracks have appeared in the anti-middle-class, anti-capitalist tone that dominated U.S. writing before the war. In a few years, a novel with a morally respectable businessman may not be a rarity. In the coming generation, the $2,000-a-week Hollywood liberal may be deader as a type than Arthur Miller's Salesman...
...that Boussac got last week for winning the St. Leger made him^the leading 1950 money-earner on British tracks. He was already the French Deader by a country kilometer. Back of his long string of victories is a string of 300 horses including 100 brood mares and eight stud stallions. About 100 of the horses are always in training under oldtime French Jockey Charles Semblat. When they cross the Channel, they travel in a special Bristol...
...that the "long route" meant over the fence. "It was almost impossible to hit a ball out of the park in those days," Stuffy muses. "Everything favored the pitchers. The ball was deader than it is today, and the pitchers all chewed tobacco, so that by the eighth or ninth inning the ball was like a chunk of coal...
...failure-in & out of Italy-to live up to its faith in itself and its God. This sickness of a civilization, not necessarily fatal, had definite symptoms that could be observed and recorded. If the West did not observe, record and act upon the evidence, the West would be deader than Rienzi...