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Witness-Box Characters. Koestler starts with loaded dice. The very qualities that make Thieves in the Night first-rate Jewish special pleading make it also unsatisfying as fiction. Every character is part of a carefully arranged witness-box cast, and the arrangement is too deliberate ly designed to give both sides of the story. It is almost as if the author didn't quite trust his Zionist approach to stand on its own feet...
...George Lucas of Lafayette, Ind. (1944 pop. 30,746) was judged the Typical American Housewife by a national research organization. Outlines of the Typical American Housewife: she is 28, a solid. ly built brunette, the wife of a sailor, has a six-year-old daughter and a four-year-old son, does all the housework for an eight-room house (where her father-in-law lives), goes shopping every other morning, likes to cook, doesn't like quick-frozen foods, won't use corn syrup to stretch sugar recipes, serves the day's big meal...
Joan Bennett decided that the time had come to change ly-year-old Daughter Diana's last name again. It was'Fox when Cinemactress Bennett was Mrs. John Fox, then Markey when she was Mrs. Gene Markey; now that she is Mrs. Walter Wanger, she wants a Los Angeles court to make Diana a Wanger...
...correspondent asked if that included the stabilization fund. Truman replied quickly that it included the program as sent to Congress by the President (Roosevelt). Again he said that was as plain as he could make it. By now the scribbling correspondents were well aware that friend ly Harry Truman was laying his views clearly on the line...
...more: he completely and final ly dissociated himself from isolationist elements in the G.O.P. And he sought to disabuse any who might think that the G.O.P., under President Dewey, would be for a soft peace. Said he: "The military defeat of Germany and Japan must be complete and crushing...