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...writers usually probe into the remote corners of the heart. Preferably the heart should be broken, guilty or sick, but at the very least it must be troubled. One of the finest heart specialists now practicing in U.S. short fiction is Jean Stafford. A meticulous workman, she makes no quack's diagnosis, and the cases she has taken on have been few. Her favorites make up the table of contents of Children Are Bored on Sunday, and most of these stories are calculated to engage the heart of any reader...
Small Voice. In St. Louis, when police asked John Shannon whether he had broken a window of the Supreme Poultry & Fish Co. and stolen a duck, he retorted: "I don't know a thing about it," was contradicted by a loud quack from inside his shirt...
...Hollywood Columnist Sidney Skolsky, currently producing a two-dimension screen biography of Eddie Cantor, concluded: "The movie industry, like a man running to a quack doctor, tried to find a quick cureall: a hypo of 3-D and wide screen (e.g., Cinerama). Both . . . have been around for some time, but the movie industry ignored them because it was feeling great, breaking all records at the box office . . . When the stuff wears off . . . the industry will still have to face and fight its original fear and frustration...
James McGee, who wrote The Temptation of Maggy Haggerty, is apparently one of these militant archaists who believe that anything invented after the death of Thomas Aquinas is the work of the devil. In Mother Haggerty's boarding house the villains are a quack doctor, advocate of machines, printed matter and the like, and a bearded rummy, whose claim to infamy is his intellectualism. As I see it, McGee wants Man to stand up on his hind legs and bury contaminated products of the modern world in the good, clean earth...
...American can stand to one side while his country becomes the prey of fearmongers, quack doctors and barefaced looters. He doesn't twiddle his thumbs while his garden is wrecked by a crowd of vandals, and his house is invaded by a gang of robbers. He goes into action . . . by getting into politics-fast and hard. I'm in politics just that...