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...twelve years had been strenuous ones. In 1939 he had given up a top-drawer practice in corporation law for politics. He was tired of law suits, said Cripps, "of taking money from one capitalist to give to another capitalist." As a Socialist he sought a different distribution of wealth. When he gave up his law practice, there were 6,560 Britons (including Cripps) with after-tax incomes above ?6,000 a year. Last week when he returned to private life there were only...
...moderns can't draw. The best of them, like the best artists of any century, draw almost as they please. The trouble is that few moderns care to please the puzzled layman. That point was driven home last week with an exhibition of drawings by 86 top-drawer moderns in the north Italian city of Bergamo...
...hold the post, thinks that Harper's present circulation (159,357) is adequate, though he frankly wishes he "had the wit to get more without doing anything I consider unworthy of the magazine." With or without wit, Editor Allen can still attract top-notch writers for bottom-drawer rates. The probable reason, says Allen, is that "we deliberately edit for a minority of educated . . . people . . . the real leaders of America. We do not [try to] appeal to the millions of people who do not really know how to read or care to make the effort...
...comedy. It crackles with smart, smarting dialogue. Sometimes at too earnest length, but mostly with wit and always with insight, it jabs at the quirks and follies of show business and its "concentrated gatherings of neurotics, egomaniacs, emotional misfits and precocious children." It matches some penetrating characterizations with top-drawer acting. With all these merits, plus a full-blooded story, the picture is absorbing enough to ride over an occasional lag, satisfying enough to redeem a contrived epilogue...
...essential to have a car. Aristos [the drawer above smarties] have Bentleys or Allards; smarties, Humbers or Triumphs . . . No smartie would be seen dead on a bicycle...