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Larry Todd and Moscow have been pen pals for 27 years. The man on whom the Russians rely for exhaustively detailed daily reports on U.S. foreign policy and other matters, likes to call himself a "plain Yankee from Michigan." He was born in Nottawa, Mich., but there the plainness ends. Swayed by Edward Bellamy's Equality and a speech by Eugene V. Debs, young Todd joined the Socialist Party in 1904. At 29, he was a Washington correspondent, served United Press, International News Service and Federated Press in turn. He joined Tass in 1923 as a stringer, became...
...greeting to Charles Copeland on his 90th birthday invokes so many memories of personal friendship and public benefaction, so much of the spirit of the older and more humanistic Harvard, that the pen falters. All that he taught was precisely yet warmly of the best. No inference in the tremendous Harvard of my day drew its light from purer sources of diffused it more generously...
...this all makes for amusing reading--but pretty pointless. The "issue"--if it can be called that--has merely served as a pleasant excuse for idle Harvard undergraduates to take callow pen in hand and produce--Look, Everybody!--a Treatise. Students with serious qualms about the furtherance of Joint Instruction might do better by presenting petitions to the proper College authorities, or merely by leaving, than by cheapening their newspaper with a deluge of trite beefs. However, it seemed to us that most of the letters were written in a spirit of levity; if not, their feverish carnestness about...
Betty carries the show with such riotous energy and eagerness to please that she threatens to carry it too far. She plunges into her first two numbers like a bronco out of a rodeo pen, filling the screen with so much motion that it is hard to listen for the words-and impossible to ignore the singer. She lacks Ethel Merman's craftiness with comedy, but along with her unbridled vitality, she gives the role something that brassy Ethel Merman never attempted: she kindles the love story with poignancy, makes it seem something more sincere than a musicomedy plot...
Owen Lattimore was perhaps the best brain, and certainly the best pen, in a group of experts, educators and diplomats-both in & out of the State Department-who strongly influenced U.S. policy in Asia. Specifically, this group consistently opposed U.S. aid to Nationalist China and Chiang Kaishek, whom Lattimore regards as the No. 1 enemy of progress in Asia. In his twelve books (The Mongols of Manchuria, America and Asia, The Situation in Asia, etc.), Lattimore has offered the U.S. a lot of advice on how to win friends in the Far East. One of his opinions, preached steadily...