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Winchell, he jeered: "Winchell calls that work. To me, it's fun. After heavy reporting on two national conventions, turning out froth and fripperies is relaxation and relief." He will lose that job next week, when Winchell returns from vacation to turn out froth and fripperies of his own, which are more spiteful and more readable. Turn of the Screw. One of the most prolific writers in the business, an expert in the sentimental, tough-guy school of prose, horn-rimmed Jack Lait has inherited Mark Bellinger's crown as king of the hacks. He figures that...
This situation is promising, but it never quite pays off. For one thing, about halfway through the novel the reader gets an uneasy suspicion that Miss Sharp is trying to smuggle in a little Heavy Thought with the froth. What's worse, neither the comic nor dramatic possibilities of the clash between Tilly and Simon are fully exploited. In the end, the novel has no more sparkle than decarbonated soda water. But even flat soda can quench a summer day's thirst...
Lashed to a creamy froth, the skies tumbled a blanket of white on the Eastern Seaboard the day after Christmas. At first it was mistaken for leftover egg-nog, but it was not long before the awful truth dawned upon the quaint villagers of New York and Boston. It was snow. The mold had finally been broken. The awful implications were soon abroad, and within a day the sign of the flying red horse had changed to an off-white. But the effects were even broader; James B. Conant switched to Calvert because he liked its flaky texture; there...
...Froth of a Flood. Last week in New Delhi, Queen-Empress Victoria's great-grandson, Rear Admiral Viscount Mountbatten of Burma, Viceroy of India, was working hard to get out of India as fast as he could. To Hindu and Moslem politicos responsible for setting up two new dominions in India before mid-August he sent memos reminding them "only 62 more days," "only 55 more days." The British did not rely on Hindu and Moslem leaders' continuing to work together. The British wanted to clear out before India blew up in their faces...
...only proper way of life. In the whitewashed, DDT-ed compound which serves him as headquarters, Gandhi licked his soul wounds: "I feel [India's violence] is just an indication," he told his followers, "that as we are throwing off the foreign yoke, all the dirt and froth is coming to the surface. When the Ganges is in flood the water is turbid...