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...Alexander Woollcott's hobbies is collecting folk tales which bob up month after month, year after year, sometimes with different characters and settings but always with the same set of basic facts. One such story concerns the European peasant boy who leaves home, makes his fortune, returns in manhood to surprise his aged, indigent parents with a money gift. The parents, who keep the village inn, fail to recognize him when he asks for lodging. Planning to surprise them in the morning, the son retires for the night. But the greedy innkeepers, who have seen their guest...
...whom the Soviet Press sneered as "flotsam left over from the old regime." Youthful Russia has always been touted as solidly Bolshevik, solidly Stalinist. Last week the 14 accused at Leningrad were all young men in their 20's and 30's, Russians who have grown to manhood under the Red flag. They were accused broadly of a major plot to assassinate not only "Dear Friend Sergei" but the chief leaders of the Government, including Stalin. If such young men, all but one members of the Party at the time of their arrest, think Stalin should be assassinated...
Answer: No. The Corporative State, like Topsy, just grows. It reached adolescence years ago, cannot reach manhood for some years to come...
...Manhood will not come until Il Duce feels able to withdraw his personal guidance from the manifold and multiplex organs of state he is creating. Today they are in virile flux. The goal is to create government by men responsible not primarily to geographical constituencies or obedient to the results of counting noses; but government by men drawn from the ranks of production representing primarily agriculture and industry, labor and capital, trade and the professions. In the General Assembly sat last week not "the Deputy from Padua" but, in effect, "the Deputy from Wheat," "the Deputy from Mercury, " "the Deputy...
...heavily on Ruth Suckow's The Folks (TIME, Oct. 1), saw another feminine candidate loom on the horizon last week. Josephine Herbst's The Executioner Waits has little to do with the original conditions of the Pulitzer bequest ("wholesome atmosphere" and "highest standard of American manners and manhood"), but it conforms to the present standard: it is one of the best U. S. novels...