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...America particularly, the public appetite for good new music increased, as did opportunities for getting in performed. Orchestras, audiences, honors (witness the fuss made over Shostakovitch's "conversion" in '37), everything awaited the arrival of the great man, but he never came. The public wanted music in the grand style, forgetting that great music is the offspring of a certain quality of life that the times could not produce...
...disservice to our country's cause." And from London piped George Bernard Shaw: "To say that Dreiser's comments regarding the war are furiously inaccurate is only to say that they are like everyone else's comments regarding the war. . . . There's nothing to fuss about. ... If he is soundly determined to see Adolf Hitler damned first, he can say what he likes regarding wicked old England." Said Dreiser: he had been partly misquoted...
With fanfare but without fuss New York Republicans picked youngish (40) shoebrush-mustached Thomas E. Dewey this week to run for Governor. They applauded Keynoter Joe R. Hanley: "It is high time that this nation realizes that you cannot win this war with business as usual, strikes as usual, pleasures as usual and happiness as usual." Then happily, enthusiastically they turned to the pleasures of Saratoga Springs-where their convention was held-thronged its race track, filled its bars four-deep, paraded and played all through the night...
...quizzical look and the three silver stars of a lieutenant general quietly strolls in. Quietly he walks up & down the production lines, looking hard, saying little. Sometimes he stops, shows a workman how to handle a tool more smoothly. Sometimes he reroutes a whole line. He leaves without fuss, flies on to the next plant, the thanks of production bosses ringing after...
General DeWitt, as he has right along, kept mum. As military dictator over 12,000,000 apprehensive citizens in eight States and Alaska, General DeWitt was credited by the Army with having done a superb administrative job. Since Pearl Harbor, without fuss, he has moved thousands of Coast Japanese to places of safekeeping for the duration, has closed race tracks, bidden Pasadena's big Rose Bowl game go East...