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Between the sketches, the camera plays a huge assortment of visual games to help the narrator introduce the next sketch. But no matter how clever the camera gets it's no match for the author, who never gives trick photography the impossible task of seeming hilarious all by itself. Instead, photography is always in support of some well though-out gag, reinforcing its humor to give the dividend of trickery. For instance, the narrator lists the subjects of his study on a blackboard, by pointing his finger the writing appearing by itself. But the blackboard gets uppish and keeps listing...
...much of a Christian," said Editor Herbert Gunn of the London Daily Sketch last week. But Herbert Gunn is very much of an editor (the Sketch's circulation has jumped from 600,000 to 1,000,000 since he took charge 18 months ago). When he saw how many readers wrote in about antireligion BBC broadcasts by Psychologist Margaret Knight (TIME, Jan. 24 et seq.), he saw a circulation builder. "The boldest discussion ever attempted by a newspaper." the Sketch proclaimed a few weeks later: IF CHRIST CAME BACK...
...Keep this woman off the air! Britain is a Christian country." So wrote the London Daily Sketch when Psychologist Margaret Knight advised parents over BBC to straighten out their children on the "myths" of Christianity (TIME, Jan. 24 et seq.) In the current weekly Commonweal, British Correspondent Michael P. Fogarty, a Roman Catholic, argues that Mrs. Knight actually struck a blow for Christianity in Britain. He adds: "the idea that Britain is a 'Christian country' is at best a half-truth . . . There is a mass of what [have been called] 'four-wheeler Christians, people who arrive...
...name will live in history," wrote King George V at the death of Colonel T. E. Lawrence. Soon afterward, in a biographical sketch, Winston Churchill added: "That is true; it will live in English letters; it will live in the traditions of the Royal Air Force; it will live in the annals of war and in the legends of Arabia...
...organizer, a training stint in Moscow, the Cominform, the return to Prague as the party's dreaded "Grey Eminence." He has a direct line to the Kremlin, until the line is ruthlessly twisted around his neck. For long stretches. Author Wechsberg takes his eyes off Slansky-Stern to sketch in personal memories of how the easygoing Kaffeeklatsch world of his youth was laced into the straitjacket of Red tyranny. The book is good reporting. There is only one bone to pick with Wechsberg's theme-other and better novelists have already picked its bones...