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...From one TIME reader to all others, I'd like to be recorded as in complete agreement with your astute reviewer's perceptive opinion of the new off-Broadway musical Ernest in Love, especially in regard to the manner in which the Anne Croswell lyrics "graft smoothly onto the play as in a superbly haughty number called A Handbag Is Not a Proper Mother." Like the "superbly haughty" Lady Bracknell, the famous Wildian character who sings this number, the "superbly haughty" actress (anonymous in your review) who essays this role is indeed herself a "very proper mother...
...people,'' announced the new Garcia-and fired four of his Cabinet ministers. Then he summoned Economist Dominador (Dom) Ay-tona, 42, a onetime schoolmaster who had graduated summa cum laude from Manila University and served as Magsaysay's budget commissioner. "What do you think about graft and corruption?" he asked. When Aytona bluntly replied that reform was necessary, Garcia named him Secretary of Finance, in charge of customs, internal revenue and import licensing-the three major areas of political gravy...
...still clacked out new money to support a 250,000-man army that gobbles up 50% of the budget. Commerce had slowed to a near standstill; in central Java only 50 sugar mills were operating (v. 120 prewar), and some 200,000 mill workers were unemployed. Everywhere, there was graft, red tape and spectacular inefficiency. Shiny new Czech tractors proved useless in the flooded rice fields; some 30% of a 100,000-ton Swedish shipment of cement had turned to rock because no one thought to bring it in out of the rain...
Cynically fostering an army purge are many of South Korea's 3,700 youthful lieutenant colonels and colonels, who make $63 monthly or less, and would like to see some vacancies at the top-where, as some of them candidly admit, the opportunities for graft are better. Posturing heroically on street corners, they charge the generals with everything from taking bribes from draft evaders to delivering the vote of entire ROK army divisions to the Rhee ticket in last March's fraudulent elections. Counters U.S. General Carter B. Magruder, who as U.N. commander is responsible for South Korea...
...called Bunbury and uses him as a shield against dull social obligations to the plight of the poor chap whose origins are unknown because he was found in a Gladstone bag in Victoria Station. Now and then guilty of unfortunate lapses of taste, the lyrics for the most part graft smoothly onto the play, as in a superbly haughty number called A Handbag Is Not a Proper Mother...