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...utterly failed to deflect-French Jazz Pundit Hugues Panassié from listening to innumerable U.S. phonograph records. Paris kept up its hot concerts. When the German authorities, sensing sedition, looked in, they found the St. Louis Blues had become La Tristesse de St. Louis. The said St. Louis, the Germans were told, was of course none other than Louis...
What few seemed to grasp was that the planning and changeover to a peace economy would be infinitely tougher, and politically more explosive, than the 1940 American conversion to war. Said Pundit Walter Lippmann: "We shall have to face fully the realities . . . which are now as little understood as were the danger and imminence of war in the winter of 1940. How little that was understood may be judged from the fact that two months before the fall of France, the House cut the number of replacement airplanes of the Army to 57, and the President did not publicly object...
...Pundit Walter Lippmann sharply analyzed U.S. policy toward France...
...Bade godspeed to frail, silver-haired Presidential Assistant Lowell Mellett, for six years a zealous New Deal employe, not conspicuously employed since Pearl Harbor. Mr. Mellett, once a Scripps-Howard executive, will pundit a political column for the Washington Star...
Columnist Fisher groups 54-year-old Pundit Lippmann with old (69) G.O.P. Spokesman Mark Sullivan (55 papers, circ. est. 5,000,000) and old (66) Roosevelt-baiting Frank Kent (87 papers, circ. 5,000,000) as having undergone "violent reversal of attitude at periods approximating their middle years and success." Of Sullivan, Fisher says: "The fact that none of the tragedies [he has predicted] ever came to pass . . . has in no way affected [his] status as prophet, analyst," keeper of the Old Guard faith. Of Kent: "A prosperous citizen [vice president of Baltimore's Sunpapers] . . . when [he] assails...