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Light voting, even in the primaries, besides showing general political apathy, grants self-interested, organized political machines the upper hand. Congressional and State leaders should be considered with more, rather than less, discrimination in war time. At a time when side-show entertainment and baby kissing should fade into the background as a criterion of administrative excellence, other parts of the country have shown that they, too, are not awake. Hamilton Fish and "Pass the biscuits, Pappy" O'Daniels have passed the primaries in their States and seem certain of reelection...
...needed materials that are already disappearing from the war-time-market, a delayed, independent '44 class book would have to face the problem of rapidly disintegrating constituency. For should the class dwindle further under the fire of draft boards, the financial prospects of this second Album would have to fade proportionately. Moreover, changes in requirements for degrees, along with the variations produced by innumerable reserve schemes mean even greater divergences in the dates of graduation--and thus make any true distinction between Junior and Senior classes virtually impossible...
...does inadvertently achieve a curious cumulative impression of famous and infamous faces under the wear & tear of time. Hitler ages visibly from the bedraggled but hard-driving Chancellor (1933) to the double-chinned, snappish war lord (1941). Bombast and ostentatious health fade from Mussolini's naked dome after the debacle in Greece. From the present's point of view, Laval looks untrustworthy from the start. Irony stalks beside Winston Churchill and Admiral Darlan as they review French sailors together. The tread of marching armies forecasts the kind of fight they will make later on-the Germans, thudding, dour...
There was another important reason why Parliamentary criticism might be expected to fade. Though a great deal came from the Left, the Left was well aware that much came from the deepest Right. And the Left was inclined to go along with a man whom the Right disliked, so long as no powerful Leftist seemed likely to get the Prime Ministership...
...thing was starkly apparent to newsmen in Washington. Optimism, much of which had emanated from the White House (whether or not it was intended), began to fade early in the week, as even dull minds began to suspect the phony reports from Cairo and London about the fighting in the desert. When Mr. Churchill arrived, people said: "We didn't think it was that...