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Besides pigeons, the church bodies in charge of the two-year Emergency Peace Campaign (TIME, March 16) had a prime ally in 77-year-old George Lansbury. This Christian Socialist is a devout Anglican who lately remarked: "I get tired of being told what a nice, good fool I am." Nice, good "Old George" fought against conditions in British workhouses, fought for women's suffrage, twice went to jail, attempted, as Laborite Commissioner of Works (1929-31), to realize his dream of a happy, beautified London. A single-minded and uncompromising pacifist, Lansbury yielded what crumbs remained...
Gallic tongues in cheek, Vu's Publisher Lucien Vogel and Editor Philippe Boegner last week confessed that these sensations were no more authentic than the hoaxes annually perpetrated in the April Fool number of German Illustritre Zeitung (TIME, April 23, 1934). According to Vu, the Referee's gullible and light-fingered editors were not the only dupes of the sextuplet yarn, which had been illustrated with six views of the same infant. To an inquiring U. S. doctor, Vu solemnly replied that the six little boys now had a sister, born three months after the multiple delivery...
...road through the Berkshires is none too straight, in fact, it's very winding, and after the fifth depression of the accelerator rubber began to shrick on every curve. "This fellows's a fool," barked the driver of the Chevrolet, "he doesn't know when he's had enough." Suddenly the Ford began a Bedlam of horn-honking. It threw such an unchivalrous and vulgar element into the race that the Chevrolet driver immediately became so vexed that, together with a few bitter remarks, he stuck his arm out the window and rudely motioned for the Ford to pass...
Then one of the cocky Northwestern students completely crushed the little fellow by saying, "You darn fool, you should have taken the dollar...
...respectable following will publish next week the Group's first big literary apologia. Having tried smart fiction (Evensong), pacifism (Cry Havoc!) and horticulture (Down The Garden Path), elegant British Author Beverley Nichols has turned to the Oxford Group. "All I want," says he in his forthcoming The Fool Hath Said,* "is to get as many people as possible to share with me the excitement of living Christianity...