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...news page is always something new, largely because people have a charming habit of not doing precisely the same thing every day. You call Important Sources to Confirm Anonymous Reports; you wheedle information out of truculent Persons in Authority; you write stark exposes of those whom formerly you had thought innocuous...
...news page is always something new, largely because people have a charming habit of not doing precisely the same thing every day. You call Important Sources to Confirm Anonymous Reports; you wheedle information out of truculent Persons in Authority; you write stark exposes of those whom formerly you had thought innocuous...
...Salinger will have some advantages over Jim Hagerty-as well as some disadvantages. Dwight Eisenhower, perhaps out of old Army habit, generally held himself coolly aloof from the White House press; Jack Kennedy, whose first job was as a reporter for the old International News Service, is far more accessible to the press, numbers several reporters among his closest personal friends. But White House reporters operate on a communal code, are likely to raise Cain with Salinger when favoritism is shown...
Martin's convictions had the habit of ringing like gongs; he refused to shoulder arms in World War I, for example, not on religious but on personal grounds (he later served with an ambulance unit in France). His pacifism sometimes sounded like appeasement at nearly any price. The Statesman was the first publication in Great Britain to advocate ceding the Sudetenland to Hitler. Early in World War II, the New Statesman hinted at a negotiated peace. It questioned the legality of U.S. intervention in Korea, editorialized: "The Communist offensive in Korea has given American imperialism just the opportunity...
...shame, however, that one of O'Hara's few good novels had to be manhandled the way Butter-field 8 has been--although the catastrophe might be attributed to force of habit. For Butterfield 8 is one of the truly great chronicles of the 1930's. Unlike the more recent O'Hara offerings, it is not filled with drooly bedroom scenes and lurid prose; rather, it is a sympathetic study of Gloria Wandrous and of the kind of age that could produce such a girl...