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British Novelist Evelyn (The Loved One) Waugh, surveying U.S. letters for a St. Louis interviewer, named his favorite American writer: tireless Crime Fictioneer Erie Stanley Gardner. As for U.S. customs, Waugh complained that Sunday blue laws had deprived him of wine with his meals in Mobile, Ala. He found this...
The vicar wrote to the Daily Herald: "I hardly expected to find half a hundred gaily attired men & women enjoying a display of such revolting cruelty." His letter said that the huntsmen had wantonly dug the fox out of its earth and tossed it "into the midst of a score...
The diary has been published in a book which the publishers call "a classic of World War II." In a way it is. Certainly it contains one of the most frightful stories ever printed. A few of his notes suggest the unvarying tone of the whole.
With its prestige secure, the Marshall Plan forged ahead. In France and most other OEEC countries (notably excepting Italy and Greece), the end of the "dole" phase was in sight and the productive phase had begun in earnest. Western Germany was smiling and flexing its muscles as a result of...
The real Republican leaders were more cautious. The day after the President's call, Candidate Tom Dewey refused comment. He had already praised the record of the 80th Congress and declared that a special session would be "a frightful imposition." But the wires from Albany burned with telephone messages...