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...striking example of the nationwide protest against this apparently innocent viewpoint comes from the pen of Eugene Lyons, author of "The Red Decade," who, in an open letter in the January issue of the American Mercury, maintains that "American boys are not fighting on scattered fronts...for any practical balance between our democracy and dictatorship of any brand." Lyons and other critics charge that Wallace is more sympathetic to the Russian cause than our own, that in his unbridled enthusiasm for the Kremlin he is forgetting what his "common man" is fighting...
...from his easy chair in the venerable Athenaeum Club rose Sir John Squire in righteous wrath. He rushed for pen & paper to write a letter to the Times...
...William James: "There are not infrequent times when a bottle of wine, a good dinner, a girl of some trivial sort can fill the hour for me." But that was not the whole of it. On the night of his 70th birthday he picked up his pen: "One learns from time an amiable latitude with regard to beliefs and tastes. Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. . . . Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth...
LONDON--Allied bombers heralding the final assault in Tunisia have set the Bizerte airport ablaze, a communique announced tonight, and other advices said Allied assault troops have sliced through to the sea between Tunis and Bizerte to pen up the Axis garrisons in the two ancient citadels...
...effort to spark the House War Stamp sales, which have been slumping of late, the War Service Committee is offering as rewards four spicy cartoons from the pen of Milton Caniff, author of the favorite student comic strip, "Terry and the Pirates...