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...York Times, Newshawk foster Hailey reported a discouraging conversation with one of the Army officers in Hawaii. Said the officer...
...visit of the Windsors [TIME, Oct. 6] was one of the crudest bits of writing ever to appear in your notoriously unkind pages, which must set a record of some sort. Rather a cheap record, however, because the officially snubbed Windsors are quite defenseless; hardly fair game for your newshawk's acid-tipped beak...
...would not be out of character if Newshawk and Lecturer Pierre van Paas sen girded up his loins with a goatskin, brushed wild honeybees from a matted beard, strode through the streets of Manhattan (where he now lives) muttering: "Woe to her that is filthy and polluted! What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces and grind the faces of the poor?" For this descendant of many Dutch Calvinist divines is something of a modern Zachariah, a minor social prophet in the line of Tolstoy, Strindberg, Shaw and Ibsen. Pierre van Paassen knows how to number the sins...
...always been easy to follow Papen. The sartorially perfect diplomat, who (in everything but integrity) much resembles a Prussian Anthony Eden, has been seen largely in tantalizing glimpses, shooting precipitately through the trap doors of Europe's high-political underworld. Last week Hungarian Newshawk Tibor Koeves brought these glimpses together to produce the first full-length biography of Papen in English. His book helped explain the connection between the shadowy circles in which Papen moves and the shadowy circles under his eyes. It also explained in part the chemistry of that strange political amalgam: Junker aristocrats with Nazi riffraff...
...British correspondent in Washington cabled his London office: What coverage wanted on visit of Windsors? Answer came: "Leave to agencies unless essential." A U.S. newshawk asked the Londoner what he would consider "essential." He answered: "I would say that if they were run over, that would be essential...