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...Punch style than anything else in the issue, though a poem on queues is also amusing. The play reviews, especially a report of a new musical comedy by Mr. T. S. Eliot called, "The First Serpent," are the best actual parody in the magazine; the cinema and book columns lag far behind their British counterparts...
...circulation (187,369) and advertising (20,521,756 lines for the first eleven months of 1950) still lag behind the round-the-clock Times-Herald (circ. 275,314, advertising, 21,042,854 lines) and the conservative, workmanlike afternoon Star (circ. 223,547, advertising 34,039,026 lines...
...hour-a-day factories, its censorship and brownouts, its ration books and black markets. Partly, this reflected some of the lingering doubts inside Harry Truman's own Administration on the wisdom of a total commitment now to a garrison state. Partly, the apparent caution merely recognized the inevitable lag between intent and performance. With Charlie Wilson on the job, more rigors and more vigor could be expected. On performance, not alone on words, would the U.S. be able to judge how well Harry Truman and the rest of the nation understood the urgency of his own words: "The future...
Evelyn Waugh is one of the finest prose stylists writing today. He is a master stery-teller--"Helena" does not lag, even without a real plot. He has a delicate touch in recording the Inanities (and worse) of civilization. But "Helena" lacks the religiousness of a religious story, and the bite of a proper satire. What remains is mere teeth...