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...commission seemed to feel that the ailment had been picked up largely from a lack of Canadian resistance to low-grade U.S. cultural germs such as soap operas, Hollywood banalities, pulp magazines and other commercialized peddling to mass tastes. Canada, the commissioners conceded, has gained much from the U.S. in higher culture (e.g., symphony broadcasts, Guggenheim fellowships, the better magazines, etc.). The question is whether she has gained too much for her own good...
...cultists of the old guard may deplore the trend-on the ground that it threatens, sooner or later, to take all the amazement out of the amazing. But it will be all right with most book publishers. Though the space-opera formula seems to work well at the pulp level, experimenting publishers have generally had to be content with sales of around 5,000 when such yarns are peddled as honest-to-goodness books. Just maybe the new trend will catch more readers...
...Loose definition as to which exports are aiding the Red Chinese war machine. Each U.N. member country is free to decide which goods are "non-strategic"; many of these, e.g., medicine, textiles, fertilizers, pulp & paper, will help the Chinese war machine...
...eleventh, but Jake, truculently determined not to be counted out, had warned the referee beforehand not to intervene. At 2:04 of the 13th, as Robinson was beginning to show an obvious distaste for the one-sided slaughter, the referee stopped the fight. The finish found a pulp-faced vacant-eyed Jake LaMotta backed to the ropes and holding on-but still on his feet...
Although he is no gambling man, the Rev. Owen Barrow, 40, a slight, blue-eyed Church of England clergyman, was willing to wager $33,000 on a hunch he had four years ago. His hunch: that Protestants of all denominations in the Canadian pulp & paper mill town of Marathon (present pop. 2,000) could worship together amicably in one church. Last week the wager looked as secure as Mr. Barrow's trim white clapboard Holy Trinity Church in Marathon. Anglicans, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Baptists, members of the United Church, the Greek Orthodox Church and the Salvation Army were joined into...