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...Everywhere comment was the same," cabled Kip Finch, Manager of TIME'S Overseas Editions. "At the ATC Depot in the Place Vendome six G.I.s and a lieutenant grabbed for copies. And when they noticed the date on the cover they 'really gawked; they hadn't seen .an American magazine later than March. As I went on I looked back and there on their blanket rolls sat the seven soldiers with their heads buried in seven copies of TIME-oblivious even of the passing Parisiennes...
Chosen to fill Clifton ("Kip") Fadiman's job as New Yorker book reviewer (TIME, Sept. 27) was intellectually supercharged Edmund ("Bunny") Wilson, 48, whose reputation as a critic is perhaps overshadowed only by that of T.S. Eliot...
...years old and wanted to do something else." Added the 'New Yorker's book editor: "I thought it was time to move over and give someone else a chance to sit in that seat." Thus amicably last week the New Yorker and pudgy, erudite Clifton ("Kip") Fadiman parted company. In ten years Fadiman had become the smartest, probably the best-known, and at times one of the most influential book reviewers in the U.S. Now, said he: "I'm through with reviewing." The resignation is effective at year's end, unless a replacement is found sooner...
...pocket a small pair of wooden dice. They are the oracle he invariably consults before embarking on momentous projects. In the rocking, dusty sedan he plucked them out at random. They showed six-one, a natural. He faced them toward his aide, able, beady-eyed Captain Clarence "Kip" Chase...
Memory Book Briefly revived was one of the tabloid sensations of the '20s-the case of the late Long Island blueblood Leonard Kip Rhinelander and his Negro wife, Alice Jones. Rhinelander, claiming that she had represented herself as white, sued for annulment a month after their marriage in 1924, lost his case, got a Nevada divorce in 1929. She got an agreement from Rhinelander and his father to pay her $3,600 a year for life. The father continued the payments after the son's death in 1936, but after the father's death...