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...salty tang and fishy smell of tiny Grande Rivière (pop. 992) on Quebec's rugged Gaspé coast, something new had been added: an air of progress and prosperity. It showed in little things: new rubber boots on the fishermen; gay colored raincoats on their wives & children. Fat bank accounts told more...
...unrehearsed Bride & Groom program (TIME, Dec. 17), Emcee John Nelson, vimful of interest, asked impending groom Monroe St. John: "Did you propose, or did Jane [Pedley]?" Replied St. John, with a faraway look in his eyes: ". . . We were just lying down on the-" (Emcee Nelson interrupted, in a rapid gasp: "You were sitting this...
Corner-of-the-mouth sociology, good acting, and modern art (primitives that will make art lovers of the calendar lithograph class gasp) give "Scarlet Street" a sophisticated ugliness that is appealing, if only because of its brass...
Sirs: Your note, "Chaucer, the Agitator" [TIME, Oct. 15], calls attention to the action of Local 555 of the Teachers' Union in condemning Chaucer's Canterbury Tales because of their supposedly being a stimulus to race prejudice. One can only gasp in shocked amazement that any group of presumably educated educators could arrive at such a completely untenable opinion. Had these pedagogical-engineers read Chaucer with even the minimum of understanding, they would have discovered an author more cognizant of the ills of humanity than many a more recent writer and would have found him a champion...
Along with the authentic news from the perishing Third Reich came a rash of rumors and "reports." The dizziest to reach print was whelped by the unreliable "Free German Press Service," operated in Stockholm by Germans who call themselves "emigres" F.G.P.S.'s latest gasp: The "Hitler" who was in Berlin was not Hitler at all. It was a Plauen grocer named August Wilhelm Bartholdy, whose face was his misfortune: he looked like the Führer. Grocer Bartholdy, said F.G.P.S., had been carefully coached and combed, then sent to Berlin "to die on the barri cades. ... He will...