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Chubby, chipper Jacques Duclos, one-time pastry cook, is Secretary General of the French Communists; he is also a sort of unofficial foster parent for national Communist parties outside of Russia. Last year, in the French Communist organ Les Cahiers du Communisme, he administered a polemical spanking that unseated U.S. Communist Boss Earl Browder. Last week he turned his admonitory attention to Italian Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti...
...Wechsler, to move three of his staff to Manhattan. Rather than do it, Wechsler resigned, and Ingersoll fired the three. One of them was Milton Murray, president of the American Newspaper Guild, whose Washington and New York chapters promptly took up their cudgels against the editor of the loudest organ of the leftist press...
...Republic raised their eyebrows. For the first time in its 31 years, the opinionated weekly journal of opinion had daubed make-up on its sallow, paper-towel complexion, political cartoons on its restyled cover. Inside, it had jazzed up its austere format like a C.I.O. house organ, had even started a chummy column of office gossip. Recently it stepped farther out of character to buy radio commercials, brazenly courting a mass audience...
Editorially, the Pilot, official organ of the Boston archdiocese, wrung its hands: "G. Bromley Oxnam has to live with himself. Undoubtedly he says prayers before he retires at night. In these orisons, in his baring of soul before a God Who reads our innermost hearts, let the Bishop weigh his responsibility for the confusion he spread in that . . . talk, for the pain he inflicted on all whose only trust is the Crucified Hope of the world, for the delight he gave to those who try to convince themselves that belly, sensual desire, is the only god worthy of rational worship...
Mastery without Talent. Albert Schweitzer, an Alsatian, was the son and grandson of schoolteachers and Evangelical ministers. At nine he played the organ in church, later studied in Paris under the great organist Charles Marie Widor. By his teens he had developed a fascination for "mastering subjects for which I had no special talent," and frequently read the clock around...