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...never said that the Albino limerick [TIME, March 4] is or ever was my favorite. I only said that it is a better limerick than the Pelican-which isn't saying much. I never esteemed either of them. But, having been pursued by the darned bird for 40 years as Mr. Coleridge's old sailor was by the albatross, I am certainly entitled to have it and the other one appear no worse than they are. And your version of the Albino appears worse than anything I have seen-which is saying a great deal. It really goes...
...Isn't it strange that we can't find a place somewhere under God's sun for those refugees (European Jews) whose story you have noted in your issue of March...
...tone of the picture is set at the start by narrator Bob Benchley. "This, he says, "is the perfect example of how not to make a good picture." Perhaps it isn't art, but its much more worth-while than most of Hollywood's more serious efforts...
...morning Gopal Singh went out on the veranda of his house near the Himalayan foothills and handed his wife, Pyari, some women's dresses to hem. Said Pyari: "Isn't it enough that you should make your house a byword . . . must [you] bring your whore's clothes here? . . . Take back your filth!" Gopal Singh slapped her face. Screamed Pyari: "Why don't you shoot me? . . ." Half an hour later, Pyari was dead. Said Gopal's father: "We must say she died of cholera." Said Gopal: "She must be burned at once. ... It must...
Through a series of events involving a break with her mother (who would have her dress forever in black), a repulsed advance from a friend, a trip to California and a broken pair of skis, she meets the shaggy but debonair Brent. Although he isn't the "marrying type," Miss Stanwyck gets so enthused that this doesn't phase her at all. But when her friends start talking and the jitterbugging boys get score because Mom has forgotten Pop so soon, she decides she can't go off with Brent. Brent saves the day by becoming the marrying type after...