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Another Renaissance. A Burman justice named Chow Mien, leading a delegation notable for magenta skirts and orange Aunt Jemima turbans, took up Nehru's song of independence from the white man's rule. So did Mustapha Momen of the Arab League, whose delegates represented distant Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Saudi Arabia. Said he: "Liberty has dawned and the world is destined to witness another renaissance in Asia." The first voice which had raised a war cry of "Asia for the Asiatics" was missing. Japan was not represented because, said Nehru, "Japanese are not allowed to leave their country...
Next day, the Colonel addressed a 100-man luncheon given for him by Los Angeles Times Publisher Norman Chandler. With the mien of one accustomed to command, and the hypnotic oversimplification of a Tribune editorial, he explained the Greek crisis, e.g., Roosevelt allowed events to get out of control and now look at them. Then, as de facto boss of the Illinois G.O.P., he viewed party chances for 1948. "I don't think they're very good," he said. "The New York banks will control the Republicans again and run some stooge against Truman. ... It looks...
...light he looked ashen grey. His eyes were sunken, his skin flabby, his once thick mop of hair was grey, dry and scraggly. He looked his full 66 years. But his mien, as usual, was impassive...
Despite a poor choice in Barrie's gaslight comedy, the production was good. Encased in an excellent set by Paul Morrison, Philip Bourneuf, Ernest Truex, Richard Waring, and Eva Le Gallienne went through the vintage-piece with professional mien. Truex, as Alick Wylie, the old Scotchman, is a funny little man in any accent. Eva Le Gallienne, contrasting the prevailing brogue with a gaudy, if inaccurate, French accent, had most of the good lines and used them all for at least five rounds of applause. June Duprez, as the "woman who always knows" is not as plain a wench...
...face of these hazards, Durant manages to maintain a quiet reserve that is the mark of the successful down-east trader. Across the desk he is deliberate and exceedingly mild in mien and expression. This softness of speech must not be taken for timidity, as a generation of Crimson candidates will testify. But Durant is no legendary tyro out of the Copey mold. Rather he is a businessman-engineer working at the earth-bound business of maintaining Harvard's wealth of real facilities...