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EXPERIENCE paid off last week for TIME. CORRESPONDENT JOHN BEAL of the Washington Bureau is an old hand at covering the Department of State. As a result, when DOS announced that ASSISTANT SECRETARY WALTER S. ROBERTSON and ADMIRAL ARTHUR W. RADFORD were hurrying to Formosa for routine consultations, Beal raised skeptical eyebrows and went to work...
Harvard was no mechanism in developing the individuality of this mythical hero of two later generations of would-be revolutionaries. His career as a writer, his reaction against the World War, his associations, and inborn rebelliousness more surely led Reed to communism. For, to Reed, revolution was, as John Dos Passos '16 writes, "a voice as mellow as Copey's, Diogenes Steffens with Marx for a lantern going through the west looking for a good man, Socrates Steffens kept asking why not resolution? Jack Reed wanted to live in a tub and write verses; but he kept meeting bums workingmen...
...pretentious than it is, were it not for the comic welt of wit and satire it often leaves behind. Author Gaddis is as faithful as a tape recorder to the babble of loose American tongues, and New York as an asphalt jungle has rarely been patrolled so intensely since Dos Passes' Manhattan Transfer...
...Cuban reporter at a news conference asked him to say something in Spanish, Nixon first explained through an interpreter that his high-school Spanish was badly rusted; then he drew a burst of sympathetic laughter from the Cubans by saying good-naturedly: "Buenos días. Muchas gracias. Uno, dos, tres, cuatro, cinco, seis." Upon landing in Mexico City from Havana, Nixon got off to another ice-breaking start by reminding the Mexicans that he had visited their country before. "My wife and I first came here on our honeymoon 15 years ago," he said, adding wistfully that in those...
...Prizewinning Author Ernest Hemingway's literary cowardice (TIME, Dec. 13) had been Yoknapatawphaed all out of context.* "I was asked the question down at the University of Mississippi-who were the five best contemporary writers and how did I rate them," drawled Faulkner. "And I said, Wolfe, Hemingway, Dos Passes, Caldwell and myself. I rated Wolfe first, myself second. I put Hemingway last. I said we were all failures ... I rated the authors on the basis of their splendid failure to do the impossible. I believed [that] Wolfe tried to do the greatest of the impossible, that he tried...