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Cummings is also bold enough to refer to Sally Rand's fan dance at the World's Fair in Chicago, but Cummings is somewhat less satirical than of yore, though, to be sure, he was never in the great tradition, since as a satirist he is unique in that he attacks people so powerful as to be indifferent (e.g., Comrade Stalin) or too weak to defend themselves (e.g., be-spectacled Radcliffe girls, professors leading castrated pups down Brattle and Kirkland Streets, tired business men, etc.) As a lyricist, on the other hand, he is the same as ever...
...middle ages, was called the King's Evil, because the touch of a royal finger, generally accompanied by the gift of gold coin bearing an angel's likeness, was supposed to cure that disease. But no textbook on pathology describes the ailment which Washingtonians sometimes refer to as ''the disease of Presidents." Neither gold coins nor Presidential touch cures it, for it is something that Presidents themselves contract. Last week as newshawks filed into a White House press conference they found Franklin Roosevelt looking rather brighter-eyed than usual. He began to talk with vigor, paused...
...mansions planned by Richard Hunt remain rich and beautiful. And although habit-bound Harvard students will continue to refer to the building by the traditional and strangely home-spun name. "Old Fogg," Richard Hunt deserves his new glory. May his name resound through all time from the pages of Harvard catalogues...
...Lord Privy Seal, spruce young Captain Anthony Eden, who was put to bed with "heart strain" after his round of diplomatic fencing bouts with Hitler, Stalin and Pilsudski (TIME, April 1 et seq.). Chirped a glib, anonymous political correspondent of Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express: "They refer to 'heart strain'. . . . The actual trouble, I understand, is thrombosis" [clogging of an artery...
...Author Carroll bothers her readers with no more political implications than she did in As the Earth Turns, but both these novels might be taken as regretful commentaries on New England's changing folkways. Author Carroll's sympathies are conservative; the "few foolish ones" of her title refer to the dwindling minority who remain stubbornly loyal to the old U. S. traditions. She compares them to birds whose love of home overcomes their fear of winter. Like As the Earth Turns, A Few Foolish Ones is a quiet and well-told tale of the second rank...