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Sedentary Scrutiny. Philosophers have never agreed in their opinions of the Crusaders. To Voltaire it seemed fantastic to believe that such ruthless warriors could also be moved by honest piety; to Hume, such a blend of piety and piracy seemed perfectly typical of human nature. More recently, Britain's Lord Dunsany declared that the "adventure of the Crusades [was] the wisest policy that European statesmen ever formulated," because it cleared all the gangsters out of Europe and gave "the arts of peace ... a chance to blossom...
...Other blasts of recent memory: the famous angry letter to Music Critic Paul Hume for his review of daughter Margaret's singing; his slap at the Marine Corps ("they have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's"); his crack at the mineworkers' John L. Lewis ("for your information, I wouldn't appoint John L. Lewis dogcatcher...
Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Promise, with Gloria Swanson, Hume Cronyn, Margaret Phillips...
Washington Post Music Critic Paul Hume, whose opinion of daughter Margaret's singing last month prompted Harry Truman to take angry pen in hand, felt the sting of some critical grapeshot himself. After Hume narrated Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf for a National Symphony children's concert in Constitution Hall, the Post printed a frank opinion by six-year-old Critic Frank Manola: "He doesn't sound like Basil Rathbone on my Peter and the Wolf records. He sounds more like Phil Harris on the radio...
...General Manager Branch Rickey urged the nation to keep its morale high with baseball); drama is covered by Comic Abe Burrows (he didn't like the Broadway revue Bless You All-see THEATER); press by Don Hollenbeck (he disapproved the newspapers' handling of the Truman-Hume correspondence); and movies by Bill Leonard (a vote for Born Yesterday; a vote against Red Skelton's Watch the Birdie). Hear It Now ends with a four-to ten-minute "closeup" (last week's subject: General Douglas MacArthur...