Word: mirror
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Soft Bed in Berlin. Instead, the broadcasts convinced Britain's government that Jeeves's erratic inventor had turned traitor. To repudiate Wodehouse, choleric William Connor-author of the Daily Mirror's Cassandra column-was drafted by the Minister of Information. In a virulent attack broadcast by the BBC, Connor castigated Wodehouse as "an old playboy" who had "fallen on his knees and worshipped Hitler." Roared Connor: "It is a somber story of self-respect, honor and decency being pawned to the Nazis for the price of a soft bed in a luxury hotel...
Dodderers & Bashi-Bazouks. In the Mirror, Bill Connor staunchly defended his handiwork: "My denunciation was harsh and bitter, for those were the harshest and bitterest days in a thousand years of our history." He disclosed that the script had even been criticized as "too mild" by a man with a reputation "more weighty than that of the author of Vile Bodies"-Winston Churchill himself. On the other hand, he argued, Waugh's "Ceremony of the Opening of the Wounds" could only hurt Wodehouse. Snapped Connor: "Now Mr. Waugh, in the role of an eager exhumer, disinters the corpse...
...Under Lenin and Stalin, Kennan (5) / 4. The New English Bible (3) / 5. Ring of Bright Water, Maxwell (4) 6. The Making of the President 1960, White (9) 7. My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House, Parks (6) 8. Firsthand Report, Adams 9. Inside Europe Today, Gunther 10. Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Hauser...
Dubious Goal. The Mirror's ills are basic and probably incurable. Its birth announcement in 1924 contained the astounding promise that the new tabloid would be "90% entertainment, 10% news," and for a while the Mirror floated saucily in the wake of the Daily News. It also pulled in thousands of readers with a column by Walter Winchell, the first and best of all gossipmongers. But at 64, Winchell is past his prime, and so is the Mirror-at 37. Its dubious goal of entertainment has been undermined by TV, and, despite a sizable circulation...
Though the stock market is no longer as faithful a mirror of the total economy as it once was, it inevitably reflected some of the caution. While the Dow-Jones index of blue chip industrials last,week inched back toward its alltime high of 706, many of the highly speculative "glamour" or "futuristic" issues stood far below their recent giddy peaks. Some had been selling at 100 or more times earnings. For one list of ten selected glamour stocks-(see chart), the fall-off since May amounted to nearly...