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...editors of Lord Beaverbrook's London Daily Express, the six-month trial run of Steve Canyon had been quite a trial. Steve had been a problem to the 3,870,000 readers of the Express, too. Milton Caniff's comic-strip airline operator was a likable enough chap, but how was one to understand him without a pony? Even to inveterate followers of the U.S. cinema, such terms as "leg it," "front boy," "Hood" and "gee" were hard to translate. Express editors, who have had to doctor much of the Canyon dialogue for British readers, were nonplussed...
...volume, lie on Winston Churchill's work table in his library at Chartwell. Early next year, it is hoped. Vol. I (probably covering the period up to Dunkirk) will appear in a weekly series in LIFE, and daily installments in the Times. Other installments will probably follow at six-month intervals, timed to dovetail with book publication by Houghton Mifflin...
...Wodehouse, Britain's fastest-writing, longest-lasting funnyman, arrived in Manhattan with his wife (who calls him "Plummy") and their beige Pekingese, for a six-month stay that he hoped to extend. "I do think I'd like to live here for the rest of my life," said he. But he said he had some plays he hoped to get produced. His first night was rather makeshift: hotel space was spare, and large, bald Wodehouse had to sleep on a couch. Next day he discovered he couldn't take his Peke into a restaurant with him. About...
Said the-other: "Before the war, when another university wanted to borrow a professor even for a six-month lectureship, they wrote a polite letter asking our permission. Now they just send a telegram direct to the professor, offering him a permanent job. The only way I hear about it is if I happen to run into the professor with his furniture on his back...
...like pieces before they appear in print. One Fine series (on sloppy teaching of U.S. history) won a 1943 Pulitzer Prize. Last week Dr. Fine (he has a Ph.D. in education) began a new twelve-part series on what was wrong with U.S. education. It was based on a six-month swing he had made around the nation's public schools, and on the answers to 5,000 of his questionnaires...