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Philip Neri, whose delight it was "to play the fool for the love of God," managed to be both saint and humorist-to what degree is made plain in Theodore Maynard's new biography, Mystic in Motley (Bruce Publishing Co., $2.50). Biographer Maynard contributes nothing essentially new, is content in his popularization merely to introduce to modern Americans cue of the most unexpected personalities in Catholic hagiology...
...there anyone who is really fool enough to think that an appreciable amount of grain will be saved by voluntary sacrifice? I go into the grocery store and there is a cake. I buy that cake because I know that if I don't, my smarter neighbor will, and the poor Italian kids sitting across the table from us will still starve. (All cake is gone by 6 p.m. no matter who buys it.) The problem is one of getting the grain before it becomes cake. We won't eat it only...
Robert Conway has been nominated as the "Biggest Damn Fool of the Year" [TIME, April 22]. . . . The blame is not on Conway. He is but a tool, an agent of the New York Daily News and its readers. The News and its allied organs do not exist in a vacuum, printing blasts of prejudice from an editorial ivory tower contrary to the opinions of the rest of mankind. They exist because their millions of readers want to believe perversions of the truth...
There were still economic classicists who wanted to end OPA. A familiar rumble came from the National Association of Manufacturers' President, Robert, Wason: "OPA is trying to fool you and the American people in the hope that it can frighten you into extending its power for another year." And a less expected voice, that of Minnesota's Republican Senator Joseph Ball cried: "OPA [is] the most important single collection of American fascists...
Barbara Hutton, thrice-married* dime-store heiress, boarded a plane for a month's junket to Paris and London, explained with more candor than discernment why she would never marry again: "You can't go on being a fool forever...