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...political system. Where party discipline is almost nonexistent, the leadership of the opposition cannot be institutionalized. Governor Stevenson, a man without an organized personal faction, shortly (Jan. 12) to be without office and without patronage, may exercise genuine leadership of his party by the sheer power of tongue and pen. But if he does, Stevenson will be the first American who ever managed...
...Fight." For half a century, no clever Egyptian politician would be caught in the open before a crowd without echoing this familiar vote-catching cry. One day last week, Egypt's strong man of three months, General Mohammed Naguib, who likes to call himself a simple soldier, scratched pen on paper, and the issue and the cry vanished. Instead of insisting on sole control of the Sudan, Naguib agreed to let the Sudanese themselves, operating under a new constitution, decide their own political future...
...windswept field near Bolivia's big Catavi tin mine, President Victor Paz Estenssoro stepped to a rude table one day last week and with a golden pen signed the decree nationalizing the country's three big tin companies. Twenty thousand black-shawled women and tin-helmeted men yelled vivas. A leather-jacketed Indian stepped to the President's side and sounded the ancient Inca battle call on a curved bull horn. That night bonfires burned all over the Bolivian Andes, and the cobbled streets of La Paz echoed with the din of jubilant partisans firing...
...Stockholm's Royal Dramatic Theater, the audience waiting to see the world premiere of The Living Room, the first play from the pen of Novelist Graham Greene, was kept waiting for a while. Reason: Author Greene had got stuck in an apartment elevator, and was 20 minutes late getting to the theater. Next day the Dagens Nyheter critic reported: "A dull play but smartly done, almost too smartly done...
Wyndham Lewis knows only one way to use a pen-as a spit. Over hissing coals of satire and irony, the British author-artist has broiled intellectual quacks (The Apes of God), ailing civilizations (Time and Western Man), and his own middle-class countrymen (Rotting Hill). Like Bernard Shaw, he outraged Britons in the '303 by following the trail of a sawdust Caesar, Adolf Hitler. But in 1937, when Shaw was busy touting Superman Stalin, Lewis became one of the first writers to bare the tyrannic fraud of Communism in a novel called The Revenge for Love. By ripping...