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Walter Lippmann (150 papers, circ. 10,000,000) is the Olympian . . . "no man writes with more skill and a better heart when dealing with democracy ten years and 10,000 miles away." But the onetime "brilliant spokesman of liberalism" has been "running neck and neck with general Republican opposition, calling upon the courts to liquidate the New Deal and upon the stars to view the general iniquity in Washington." Columnist Fisher finds Lippmann's "comment on world affairs comes from a background of study and close observance which scarcely any contemporary journalist can touch" . . . but three months before Pearl...
...None was as costly as in the preceding eight days, when 109 people were killed in three Eastern railway disasters. But they came with a shuddering frequency that showed the increasing strain of the railroads' job. The locomotive and four cars of the Milwaukee Road's crack Olympian were derailed by a buckled rail south of Seattle (five injured). Two Nickel Plate engines collided head-on at Brocton, N.Y. (none seriously hurt...
Wrote Zoya to Nadejda when her mother succumbed to a paralyzing attack of sciatica: "With Olympian calm, I put on my coat and go .to drown myself in the Neva...
...supports more symphony orchestras than all the rest of the world put together. High school children can recognize as many classics as the average music teacher could two generations ago-and highbrow musicians, in their turn, are much more familiar with our popular songs and less Olympian about them. And so the primary concern of our Music department today is with reporting the new impact of music on American life as it wells up from the great national pool of melody which is broadcast, phonographed, sung, hummed and played, danced to, talked about and argued over in almost every American...
...days of turmoil, Franklin Roosevelt had stepped in with some spectacular reorganizations-appointment of Byrnes and Jeffers, of McNutt and Wickard, a shakeup of WPB. Now, even inside the Administration, observers agreed that this, too, had been a stopgap. The sound effects had been terrific, the visual impression of Olympian lightnings spectacular-but nothing had really been changed. The era of good cheer had run its course; some nasty trouble brewed. The only consolation for plain citizens was that, despite the procrastination and the palace revolutions, the Army somehow grew and the munitions somehow got made. The U.S. was strong...