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Historical Novelist James Boyd (Drums Marching On, Long Hunt), who once said he would not write about the present because "things are moving too fast," last week jumped smack into midstream of present happenings. He bought and became editor of his local paper, the Southern Pines, N.C. Pilot ("a guaranteed circulation of 1,200 and I count a man a subscriber even if he pays with a sack of potatoes...
...chapter in Mr. Wells's new fable is 40 pages long; the last is five; and the whole is one quick petering-out. It is all rather as if, with boundless elan, a man started telling a dirty story to a nice old lady, realized his error in midstream, and tried in the same breath to finish it and to back out of it, winding up in a hopeless cachinnation of "uhs," "I-mean-to-says," and tongue-swallowings...
...Dressed up as Uncle Sam, Horace Woodward, of Arlington, Va., mounted and coaxed his steed into Bull Run, switched horses in midstream with Ann Hedrick, just to show it could be done...
...Washington correspondents next day sent Newshawk Murphy a trench helmet, a pair of football shoulder pads. *The "midstream" line, most effective of all Willkie cracks, became so familiar to correspondents that they wrote a song called Down...
...Midstream. *Pollster Rogers Dunn privately produced a poll last week giving Willkie 331 electoral votes, Roosevelt...