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...seemed to be moving toward a positive policy for liberalized world trade and stimulated production. Dulles favors such a program. But he has been too busy with the international politics of his job to give it his own leadership; it has little chance of success unless he fights for it???in Washington and abroad...
...late Raymond Clapper once wrote: ". . . When government is fluid and dominated by the executive branch, [power] goes to the men who have the force to win it???the boldness, the resourcefulness and the sure judgment that command confidence. . . ." Like his boss, Harry Hopkins has boldness and resourcefulness in high degree. His admirers think his judgment is not only uncannily swift, but uncannily sure to fit what the President is thinking...
...biographer-critic (The Modern Temper; Edgar Allan Poe) and drama editor of the Nation, has made one of the most thorough examinations yet of Johnson and his friends. His biography, jampacked with Johnsoniana, is no specialist's study: it is for the general reader, who may find parts of it???such as the chapters on Johnson as critic and philosopher?slowgoing. But he can hardly fail to enjoy the lovingly collected abundance of anecdotes and sayings which are Johnson's rightful claim to fame...
...thing Amelia Earhart Putnam still wanted to do?for the fun of it???was to fly around the world. She started from Miami, Fla. on June i with Fred Noonan, onetime Pan American navigator. They made mostly back page news until last fortnight when they started across 2,550 miles of Pacific Ocean toward tiny Howland Island, failed to reach it. Last week the likelihood was approaching sad certainty that Amelia Earhart Putnam had made headlines for the last time...
Mayor (stammering): Well, unless I? if I?unless there is something wrong with it?...