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...told the story of frustrated Phil Blake, impatient idealist, and his conversion to active membership in the Communist Party. ("He found answers there . . . some sense of security, of common purpose.") It told of Phil's new creed ("We do not question . . .") and of his development into a perfectionist for the U.S. and an apologist for the Sovíet Union. It showed Phil at work in labor unions ("Come early and vote late") and in front organizations that turned and twisted (and took new names) with the whip-cracks of the party line...
Barbara Ann takes a perfectionist's delight in tracing threes (bunnies' ears, she calls them) and double-three-change-double-threes on the ice. Even ice-when it's smooth-delights her. "I suppose most people think of ice as cold and artificial. But to me it's warm. It isn't artificial, really-it's alive...
...Middle Men. Most of these big names were names of the '20s; what of the strong men of the '30s? Ernest Hemingway, perfectionist in style and poet of action, was sweating out a new novel in Cuba. William Faulkner lay fallow, having produced from the rich river bottom of his imagination enough circumstantial fantasies to keep students of the novel and the South in a daze for years. John Steinbeck's The Wayward Bus displayed his sensory gifts and grasp of underdog U.S. types, but these qualities failed to counterbalance a cheap plot. In The Pearl, published...
...Waring profile is sagging slightly, but the Waring temperament is as sharp as ever. "I'm a perfectionist," explains Fred in his twangy Pennsylvania Tone-Syllables. He can make the claim as both showman and businessman. The Waring Corp. (whose Waring Mixer is a U.S. kitchen and barroom standby) is still doing nicely. So are the Waring Musical Library, the Shawnee Press (which sells the Waring choral arrangements), concert bookings, recordings. All told, the Waring enterprises gross the Maestro "at least" $2 million a year...
...Being a radio man from beyond the banks of the Hudson, and therefore smalltown and unaccomplished to such an accomplished metropolitan engineer as your recording-perfectionist Mary Howard [TIME, Dec. 30], I am somewhat abashed to take issue with the great woman...