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...Hoover an injustice when you say he cannot tell a joke (TIME, Dec. 18). To prove that you're wrong, simply let me refer you to a remark he made a year or two ago, concerning the famous initialed institutions of the New Deal. He said that all but five letters were used in these, and that all we needed was a Quick Loans Corporation for Xylophones, Yachts, and Zithers to exhaust the alphabet. . . . Regardless of whether or not you think this one is funny, it unquestionably comes under the heading of a joke...
Wags in busy, whirring Seattle joke about the woman who told a census taker: "I have three sons, two living and one in Portland." Easy-going Portlanders scorn their frenetic rival to the north, refer with somnolent pride to their "city where it's always afternoon...
...serves to reveal truths subtler than he suspects. A man who can pay tribute to his wife as "the best helpmeet with which man was ever blessed," who can affectionately reprint his own editorials and funny stories, who can, in the Southern journalist's equivalent of Arthur Kober, refer to a "floundered" submarine, speaks from the photographic heart of what his time and environment have made him, and is incapable of going wrong. Even such a wowser as: "Whatever else North Carolinians stand for or do not stand for, immorality by a man in the highest place...
...training in the First Corps Cadets, an Anti-Aircraft Coast Artillery Regiment, prepares a man for a commission in one of the most inodern branches of the service. The equipment is the very latest issued. (For a better picture of the equipment and training, I refer those interested to an article, "Can They Bomb Us" by Fletcher Pratt which appeared in the Saturday Evening Post of December...
...manlah!" Some listeners think this hyper-Oxonian voice is Traitor Norman Baillie-Stewart's, some think it is Dr. Helmut Hoffman's, who once lectured on Naziism in Scotland; some, that it is a renegade member of Sir Oswald Mosley's Fascist blackshirts. But most Britons refer to Zeesen's voice as Lord...