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...Japanese way, like the Japanese themselves, has been but faintly understood by the rest of the world. Prewar insularity, wartime brutality and postwar docility have confused even those who thought they were in the know. This week, in a crisp, lucid book called Five Gentlemen of Japan, the outward confusion is shaken down to meaningful comprehension. What Author Frank Gibney has tried for, and achieved, is a character analysis of the Japanese nation. He has succeeded-perhaps better than anyone else so far-in explaining how decent Japanese could become the brutes of Bataan and Manila, why they...
Most of the TV commentators were tiredly commonplace, some were plainly uninformed, and all were occasionally inaccurate (one tentatively identified a delegate on the convention floor as the Democrats' Senator Estes Kefauver). Smooth-talking Walter Cronkite (CBS) delivered the most lucid flow of comment and information. Runners-up: NBC's Bill Henry and ABC's John Daly and Martin Agronsky, with seasoned Newsman Elmer Davis providing his Indiana-accented commentaries...
...confined to his room, but used four bedside phones to keep up the threats to his editors. He warned he would order the police to rout them out, and the editors themselves asked for police protection. But at the end, Lord Northcliffe, dying at 57, made one last, lucid request: "A full-page [obituary] and a leader by the best available writer on the night [side...
Bergengruen knows that the Sperones of this world are few indeed. But in lucid, formal, unhurried prose, he makes plain the everlasting need for decency and good faith among imperfect men. Perfect solutions for human problems, he once said, are possible only "in the presence of God; but that should . . . not prevent us from continually trying to find a solution within the limitations of our daily lives...
News & Interpretation: Ed Murrow and See It Now (CBS), for its "simple, lucid, intelligent analysis of top news...