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TIME'S current cover [Oct. 15], balancing the lunch box of labor against a silk hat, is an expression of a falsehood-a falsehood that constitutes the gravest threat today to America's freedom and the very survival of our way of life as we have enjoyed it for the past century and a half...
...truth is that our system of free enterprise cannot long endure on the 2% of capital (capital with a capital "C") furnished by the silk hat. To furnish full employment under our system of free enterprise there must continue to be invested in our mills and mines and factories the other 98% that has been hitherto so invested by those symbolized by the lunch...
What U.S. missionaries know about the Far East, Chaplain Stroup complains, is not being made use of by the U.S.: "The truth is that [the] silk-hatted 'realists' have made a mess of things. . . . Our State Department 'experts' on Far Eastern Affairs have no better grasp of the problems of the Orient than have many of our outstanding missionaries. ... It was the missionary . . . who for years urged aid to the desperately struggling Chinese. . . ." What's more, "the loss of many American lives and long months of battle might have been avoided if the 'wisdom...
...added a bodice of torturing wire stays to his model of dusty blue taffeta, "Argengon" (price: $650). Hermès, famed for his sport dresses, featured his low-necked "Boston." Another newcomer, Pierre Balmain, managed to be very chic and comparatively reasonable: his mauve taffeta and tight-skirted black silk evening gown (price: $360) also had long gloves of matching taffeta. Spanish-born, ex-Communist Balenciaga was the only one who went against the mode. The New York Sun's Judy Barden quipped about Balenciaga's conservative collection: "It reminds...
...Costain - Doubleday, Doran ($3). To write this historical romance Author Costain, a Doubleday editor, read or consulted over 500 books, hired a Chinese scholar and a research worker who could read medieval Latin and French. The background is laid in the murky, turgid England of Roger Bacon, the fabulous silk-&-spice Orient of Kublai Khan. An impoverished young bastard of noble blood leaves Oxford to seek his fortune in far Cathay. Here he meets the Khan's famed general, Bayan of the Hundred Eyes, and forgets the haughty girl at home in favor of the harem slave, Maryam, daughter...