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Tallard discovers the power of the village priest and French Canadian prejudices during World War I. Twenty-eight years later his son faces the same problems more successfully. Longish but excellent picture of French Canadian life...
...William Beveridge is slim, with longish white hair combed over a domed forehead. His eyes are china blue, his face pink, with deep humor incisions on either side of his wry mouth. Britons know him as an idealist who has never belonged to a political party in his life. He believes firmly in State planning, for which, says he, suitable political machinery should be provided...
...electors are educated. The ten million disfranchised citizens in the South you speak of are, I believed you will find, among the most ignorant, uneducated, and illiterate people in the nation. If they were allowed to cast a ballot their vote would represent the persuasion of some Hucy Longish great promiser and petty briber rather than the intelligent choice of a people fit and ready to govern themselves. The way to attack the problem of the Southern poor people is not to repeal the poll tax, but to raise their standard of living and to educate them. This...
...stage of a raffish Broadway movie house in Manhattan last week, the antics of a 13-piece orchestra made audiences fidget and giggle. The band was going through all the motions: the swart, longish-haired leader led away; the brasses, the saxophones, the clarinets made a great show of fingering and blowing, but the only sound from the stage was a rhythmic swish-swish from the trap-drummer, a froggy slap-slap from the bull-fiddler, a soft plunk-plunk from the pianist. This, explained Leader Raymond Scott, was silent music...
...Wendell Willkie had his portrait painted. He sat in Rushville, Ind. and Manhattan, never more than 40 minutes at a time, for a, total of two hours and a half. Last week he pronounced the job good: "an almost exact likeness." The man who painted him, lean, dapper, longish-haired John Doctoroff, exclaimed: "Oh, God, there was nothing so hard in my life. It was like painting a moving picture...