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...like the bachelor who has made peace with the opposite sex. He's not going to send a dozen roses, or a 5-lb. box of candy, or buy box seats at the opera. He has decided that the only thing to do is just to let 'em know he's available...
Even with the proper atmosphere for composition, state songs still need titles. Composers could strive for the "sock it to 'em" effect of a state song like "California Here I Come." Or with New England simplicity, they could follow the example of Oklahoma, whose official state song is entitled "Oklahoma"; or Maryland ("O Maryland...
...large segment of the American reading public has the peculiar obsession to "get inside" somebody--anybody--to see "what makes 'em tick." This urge has sent thousands of readers to book stores in order to buy monodies on everyone from a nondescript called something-or-other to a precocious French adolescent. The more personal, the more "revealing," the more embarassing such books are, the better readers like them. Needless to say, this obsession has not gone unsatisfied within recent memory. In view of such a spectacle, it can hardly discredit a reader to approach somewhat gingerly Orville Prescott...
...safest in the hands of the Democrats, while only 29% believed that prosperity could best be had under the Republicans. This public attitude in 1952 was outweighed by Dwight Eisenhower's personal popularity, but in that campaign the most effective Democratic slogan, "Don't let 'em take it away," harked back to Depression memories. As late as November 1955, the Gallup poll recorded that 39% of the voters still thought the Democrats could do a better job of keeping the U.S. prosperous, against 37% who answered Republican...
...refused to publish D. H. Lawrence's The Rainbow on moral grounds, was allegedly called a coward by John Dos Passos for censoring his Three Soldiers before publishing it. Training a jaundiced eye on postwar bestsellers, Doran once said: "Can't say I think much of 'em. Trashy, dirty stuff ... No spiritual force, no moral fiber. Great Scott, I'm no Victorian prude. But a publisher has to draw the line somewhere...