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...offspring of the "America First Committee" of pre-war isolationist renown, it has sought in the November elections to keep out of office "Quislings" who "pretend to be friends to all, particularly the working man, but actually take orders from, or collaborate with those enemies of our government." This offhand indictment of all who look red or alien foreshadows a resurgence of nineteenth century foreign policy...
...they are dangerous. . . . [Truman's] system is bound to produce the results it so frequently does produce: not information and understanding but confusion and consternation throughout the world." The public has to know what the Government is doing, said Lippmann, but "the President cannot supply that information offhand . . . especially when there will always be some more interested in heckling him than in reporting...
...affecting as young love itself. The only real trouble with this big, pretty song & dance is the tedious plot it is hung on. Crosby and Astaire, seasoned enough showmen to know that nothing is really required of them except their standard suave recitals, treat the story to the offhand snubbing it deserves. But for 104 minutes it keeps coming back like a musicomedy plot...
...covered every major political campaign since, and a lot of minor ones, writing them up in the chatty, offhand Collier's style, long on anecdote and short on big, dull facts.'Like Collier's Quentin Reynolds, Kyle Crichton and Jim Marshall, he is a swift, easy writer. He regards his promotion as more of the same formula that gets Collier's its 2,846,052 circulation: slight, slick fiction; articles serious in subject, light in treatment; the simple, direct editorials of Reuben Maury who (for a price) writes another kind for the late Joe Patterson...
Died. Dr. Emanuel Libman, 73, master diagnostician, specialist in the diagnosis and treatment of once incurable subacute bacterial endocarditis, more widely known for his offhand feats of medical clairvoyance (he predicted Warren G. Harding's death after seeing him at a dinner party; muttered "enlarged gall bladder" after a first quick glance at Oscar Levant); after an intestinal operation; in Manhattan. In accordance with his wish, an autopsy was performed...