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Trained to the quarterdeck, he likes only to get jobs done; to heck with people who pause to ponder, fret or quibble. But -as one of his fellow commissioners pointed out last week-proper organization and supervision of work also has its part to play in cutting loafing and that is a management problem...
Neutrality or Freedom? As the bullet bickering appeared to subside, no one could say what it had accomplished, or where it would lead. But there were grave dangers to ponder. It was true that the I.R.A. had received subsidies from Germany and had harbored German agents landed by parachute. It was more than ever evident that the Nazis, by occupying Eire, could put a stopper on the stream of supplies from the U.S. to Britain. It was a fact that the I.R.A. is as hostile to De Valera's Government as to the British. The facts : the Eire Government...
...isolation of the pink-skinned world: from teachers who taught her Christian precepts, but professed no sisterly love; from girls who smiled at her with their thin buttonhole lips, as across a chasm; from visitors whose English, French or German phrases she understood, but whose meanings she could only ponder. Because her skin was brown and because she was royalty, there had never been any expansion in the invisible walls which closed around her in the pink-skinned world...
Next year U.S. farmers-barring a bad crop-will face the same problem of overabundance, for the wheat, acreage will be the same. Now was a good time for them to ponder advice given since Farmer George Washington's time: get away from the one-crop system...
BOWEN'S COURT - Elizabeth Bowen -Knopf ( $3.50 ) . Elizabeth Bowen, excruciatingly sensitive novelist, who has stalked many a ghost in the subcellars and skeleton closets of the mind (The Death of the Heart; To the North), in this book turns from fiction to ponder upon the dead bones of her ancestors. Bowen' s Court is 1) the history of the rise & fall of the Anglo-Irish gentry, as exemplified in ten generations of Bowens; 2) the story of Novelist Bowen's passionate attachment to Bowen's Court, the square, empty, echoing 18th-Century family mansion which "like...