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...would have no common tariff against outside nations, and even between member nations certain goods would still be subject to tariff. Under such an arrangement the British could exchange manufactured goods tariff-free with the rest of Europe, but would still be able to maintain imperial preference on food, fodder, drink and tobacco-goods which make up a substantial chunk of Commonwealth exports to Britain...
...Sister Lied." For many a modern mother the Bible is an alarming compendium of nightmare fodder. Jehovah's slaughter of Egypt's first-born and his drowning of everybody but the Noahs, says Edith Hunter, have struck terror to many a young heart. Children brought up on The Little Golden Books should be ex posed to Scripture with extreme caution...
...Adler, 42, named in Gladys Robinson's complaint. As the brunette swiftly exited, Actor Robinson, 62, bounced up at stage center, reached for no shoulder-holstered gat, but rasped: "Do you think it's right to walk in on people like this?" Apologizing, Newshawk Wantuch, his tabloid fodder virtually in the hopper, edged back for the elevator amidst running dialogue with Robinson, whose 29-year marriage was never more on the rocks. Robinson: "Are you married?" Wantuch: "Yes." Robinson: "First' marriage?" Wantuch (uneasily): "Yes. Twenty years." Robinson (his lip curling with a quiver): "Keep it that...
Novelist Nelson Algren, according to TIME, May 28, is convinced that "Skid Row makes the choicest book fodder." Does it? Am I the only one who is weary of problem novels about problem people and of stories that suggest fun and games are to be had only extramaritally ? Mr. Algren would refuse to attend the wedding of Marjorie Morningstar to The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit. Why should I have to officiate at the agonies of his Man with the Golden...
After making his way to a literary luncheon in Chicago, seamy-side-of-life Novelist Nelson (The Man with the Golden Arm) Algren (see BOOKS) deplored authors whose prissy works ignore "the back rooms and gutters." Resolutely sticking to his conviction that Skid Row makes the choicest book fodder, Chicago Slum Runner Algren heartily stabbed at two contemporary upper-middle-class protagonists: "If Marjorie Morningstar and The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit were being married on my front porch at high noon, I wouldn't go to the wedding...