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Thanks for your Sept. 5 report of the Macon News experiment [in headlineless, departmentalized news coverage]. During years of unfolding, refolding, reunfolding and rerefolding papers, I have yearned for such a one. The b.eef reported, "You have to read this paper to find out what's in it," was delightful. I do that with TIME and, really, I don't mind...
Herewith some news about recent TIME stories you may have read...
...Assembly's provisional 60-point agenda read like a slightly smudged carbon copy of last year's. The big items were the painful old perennials, which various committees and commissions were tossing back to the Assembly: Indonesia, on which the Dutch are wearily trying to reach agreement with the Republicans; Korea, whose well-armed Northern Communist regime has refused even to admit U.N. commissioners into its territory; Israel, which is protesting violently against a U.N. plan to internationalize Jerusalem...
Actually, his story is too diffuse and impersonal to be read as an ordinary novel of character and situation. It is rather a chronicle of events, told through the actions of characters who themselves seldom understand and never control the events: British Major Michael Walker, who directs an Athens underground during the Nazi occupation; U.S. Airman Tommy McPhail, whose plane has been shot down over Greece and who wants to be gotten back to his base; royalists and Communists; patriots and plotters; Greek girls and English girls, and one calculating American number in a Red Cross uniform...
...however, need read The Crack in the Column as a political guidebook; it is enough that it skillfully portrays the tragedy of a nation, and offers a few memorably sketched figures in the foreground. It is not a simple story, but it is a good one. Greece has deeply affected George Weller-as he says of one of his characters, it has unfitted him for simplicity...