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Moonfaced, blue-shirted Richard Watts Jr. (Herald Tribune), was formerly the H. T's cinema critic. Boyish (Broadway's loudest heigh-hoer of good-looking actresses), he is also thoughtful (Broadway's briskest champion of social-minded plays). Often acute, Watts chiefly errs in being too rhapsodic about what he likes...
...Manhattan for a visit landed Idaho-born Poet Ezra Loomis Pound, loudest and funniest U. S. expatriate. Still arrogant, shrill, red-bearded, he readily announced: "I came over only because I'm curious. ... I regard the literature of social significance as of no significance. It is pseudo-pink blah. . . . The best practical economic stuff is being written in Italy today. Men write there for audiences of 500 or 600, say what they want and make sense...
...could do with a word or two first-hand from the old country. But the voice of Erin, Radio-Eireann, from its 100-kilowatt transmitter in Athlone, is having the devil's own time making itself heard anywhere at all. The villains outshouting her are three, and the loudest of these is Klaipeda, in Lithuania. Klaipeda's station LYY, a radio holdout, has steadfastly refused to join the Union Internationale de Radiodiffusion, which assigns European broadcasting frequencies, and broadcasts loudly and persistently on Erin's assigned frequency. Officially assigned on the same frequency are Palermo and Catania...
Quick to deny any part in this attack on Miss Perkins, was her loudest critic, Representative Martin Dies* of Texas. Said he: "I wouldn't go so far as to accuse the Secretary of high crimes and misdemeanors...
...Loudest groans against the agreements came from textile manufacturers in New England, farmers in Old England. Because concessions to English producers of finer cotton goods and woolens would probably hurt New England's none-too-flourishing textile industry, Governor George D. Aiken of Vermont cracked: "It looks like a plan to turn New England into a solely recreation area." On the other hand, British farmers complained because Britain, already the principal outlet for U. S. farm goods, abolished duties on U. S. wheat, corn (except flat white), lard, certain canned fruits and fruit juices, and reduced by as much...