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...magazine section, jazzed up to hold the doubled circulation Publisher Cox has built since 1939, will nonetheless keep the old accent on the homespun and homegrown. Its first issue featured an interview with rarely interviewed Margaret (Gone With the Wind) Mitchell, a Journal alumna. Its second spotlighted another Georgia big-name, Lillian Smith, telling what happens to a Southerner who writes a controversial novel (Strange Fruit) about the South. (What happens: "I was told I would lose my friends, that my family would be injured. . . . We're all well and happy." Friends showed "wonderful loyalty.") The Journal paid Miss...
...fulfills my cherished dream by achieving the following things: untouchability must be rooted out. Hindus and Moslems should live as brothers. Men & women should be leading a regulated life. Disparity between rich and poor should disappear. Drink, evil and also gambling should be abolished. People should be habitual khadi [homespun cotton cloth] wearers. People should observe ideal cleansing mentally and bodily. Nobody should starve in Ahmadabad. Carry out as much as you can of the above. What else? You have my blessing...
...books from the fighting fronts appeared steadily; they were generally competent, rarely outstanding. Among the favorites after Ernie Pyle's homespun anthologies; Jack Belden's frank, often bitter Still Time to Die; Target: Germany, the admirable, official story of the Eighth U.S.A.A.F. ; Captain Herbert L. Merillat's detailed report of the battle for Guadalcanal, The Island; Charles Wertenbaker's Invasion! For warmly personal reasons, Mina Curtiss' Letters Home, 254 samples of the billions of letters that U.S. service men have written home since they went to war, became a public favorite...
...East Prussia-Vistula front, which cannot fail to affect German resistance in the west. Ike Eisenhower said last week that he was optimistic, but added: "I hope to prevent myself from becoming complacent." If anyone had asked Omar Bradley, he would probably have answered with one of the homespun phrases he utters so often: "The proof of the pudding is in the eating...
Cornhusker State. "This shouldn't happen to a donkey," groaned Nebraska's Democratic leaders over the campaign (no rootin', no tootin') waged by homespun George W. Olsen, their elderly, circle-squaring busboy candidate (TIME, Sept. 25). It didn't. Winner: G.O.P.'s solid Governor Dwight Griswold...