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One-Man Poll. Patterson, strapping and sloppily dressed, used to roam the metropolis by night, haunting Bowery bars, El stations, cheap movies and the newsstands, casually asking people what they thought of the News and its boss.
Last week Sartre, the high prophet of existentialism (TIME, Jan. 28), gave New Yorkers who read Town & Country an esoteric's cloud-high view of their metropolis, packed tight with steel, stone and bricks. Wrote he:
The Government spoke of inhumanity, but most ricksha men had come out of the greater inhumanity of hungry villages and hopeless slums. The Government spoke of archaic labor, but last week the ricksha men showed how necessary their labor was to a nation that is not yet wholly modern. In...
Housebroken Suburbanites. Wilson's chronicle of his mythical county is a series of portraits of the demi-suburbanites who live amphibiously between heavily housebroken country and a U.S. metropolis (New York City). Unlike pudgy Author Wilson, the nameless narrator is a tall, slim analyst of the influence of social...
From Mukden's railway station many trains chugged northward last week. Their cars were jammed with trucks, bicycles, ammunition-and Russians. The Soviet Army was evacuating Manchuria's largest metropolis, leaving the stunned, hungry, overcrowded city to the Chinese.