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...MAGIC OF MONARCHY-Kingsley Martin-Knopf ($1.25). "What was really behind the abdication" of Edward VIII; a lucid, 125-page explanation tracing the last century's British opinion about the Monarchy, by the editor of the liberal New Statesman and Nation...
Within the hour prior to his sudden death in a committee room in Ohio's State House last month, President William Forbes Morgan of Distilled Spirits Institute read aloud a lucid eight-page statement urging rejection of a so-called "antidiscriminatory" bill which sought to prohibit liquor imports into Ohio from States whose liquor laws discriminated against Ohio. Performing his most important task since leaving his job as Treasurer of the Democratic National Committee to become front man for U. S. liquor interests (TIME, March 1), Mr. Morgan contended that the legislation: 1) proposed retaliatory measures against honest regulatory...
Within a few weeks of its publication in France, Return From the U. S. S. R. sold over 100,000 copies. Reason: a writer of great reputation and acknowledged integrity, who had gone to Russia an avowed Communist, had written a beautifully lucid report which had all the earmarks of the disappointing truth...
...fact that Groucho Marx receives screen credit as co-author with Norman Krasna of The King and the Chorus Girl, may to some extent account for the picture's utterly amoral and pleasantly lucid lunacy. So may the fine comedy sense of Director Mervyn Le Roy, making his debut as a producer. Any added fillip given the story by plot resemblances to recent developments in European affairs can, since it went into production last October, be considered a happy accident, as can the facial resemblance of Actor Fernand Gravet to the Duke of Windsor when the Duke...
...they killed a record number of passengers (44) because ships have got bigger. This holocaust has lately shrunk public confidence in flying to new lows, caused a terrific din of discussions about air safety. This week the April issue of FORTUNE summarizes air safety in the most thorough and lucid article on the subject to date. And last week a committee of the U. S. Senate, sharing the same views, took steps toward doing something about them...