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...Newsmagazine has, as grist for its weekly mill, all that has been found out by all the world's good reporters. Sometimes these good reporters are TIME's own correspondents or legmen. Sometimes they work for one of the great Press Associations. Sometimes they are obscure people whose nuggets have been buried on page 10 of some little-read publication. Sometimes they are men and women in TIME's home-office, who--at one end of a wire--probe a reporter three hundred or three thousand miles away until a few confused facts become a well-ordered, living story...
...them are "From Another World," "Nothing But You," and "Ev'ry Sunday Afternoon," Rodgers and Hart have done better than this (in fact, they haven't done their best since "On Your Toes" a few years ago), but at least they haven't lost the knack of turning out grist for the country's songmills...
Moralistic puzzles and behavioristic pickles are the stock grist for Guiterman's mill, which reduces jangles into jingles quickly and, at best, easily. The more proverbial the jangles, the more compelling seem the jingles-since they at least do something effective about things about which it is conventionally taken for granted that nothing can be done. Some of Guiterman's lightest and best lyrics deal with predicaments met with on the Ark; but his most apposite are contemporary...
...Janet Barrow, BrooklineGurdon H. Slosberg Jane Woronack, Brooklyn, N. Y.George L. Snow II Peggy Ann Cross, Wellesley HillsErnest C. Staber Betty Faye Smith, Kansas City, Mo.Richard B. Stedman Anne Derrick, Washington, D. C.Richard Stern Nancy McKelvie, Mt. Lebanon, Pa.Bayard C. Stone Jeanne Sipley, Elkins Park, Pa.John E. Tully Mary Grist, West RoxburyRichard N. Thomas Elinor Bennett, FalmouthCharles Thurlow III Constance Guitner, Columbus, OhioLeo W. Tobin Melva Whittemore, BostonLester H. Tobin Sylvia Goldsmith, Bridgeport, Conn.Philip W. Trumbull Peggy Seaver, New Bedford, Conn.Arthur W. Viner Jean Freeman, Winnetka, Ill.Jacob A. Walker Marion Baird, Montclair, N. J.Edward C. Weren Patricia Drew, West Roxbury...
...striking indication that under the impact of civilization's horror at Nazi pogroms the mills of diplomacy had at last begun to grind a useful grist. Mr. Chamberlain also said that if new surveys are reassuring 10,000 square miles in British Guiana may be leased "on generous terms" to refugees. Said he: "His Majesty's Government hope that other countries...