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...right place. He enlisted noisily in the "Smokes for Yanks" campaign, thereby inspiring Col. Frank Knox's Daily News to its best cartoon of the year. Few days later the Colonel sought to undercut a more serious criticism. In a long letter to the London Daily Sketch's Lord Kemsley "on America's place in world affairs" McCormick wrote: "If it were necessary, and I write this after mature consideration, I believe that many Americans would volunteer to aid you in arms to prevent your being conquered, and I am one of them...
Will you give us a biographical sketch of "Honorable" Felix E. Alley mentioned in same? M. C. BLAIR Carlisle...
...with the best seller lists when he wrote "Inside Europe" and "Inside Asia," John Gunther might well be expected to crash through with another attempt to get "inside" some place or other. And that is exactly what he's done in "Inside Latin America," a racy and thoroughly informative sketch of Latin America, plays Puerto Rico and Trinidad...
Alarmed M.P.s, still feeling that way, smelled a "sinister" monopoly by a handful of Britain's big publishers-Lord Rothermere (who inherited his father's title last year-Daily Mail, Daily Mirror), Major John Jacob Astor (the Times'), Lord Kemsley (Daily Sketch), Lord Camrose (Daily Telegraph & Morning Post) and Lord Beaverbrook (Daily Express)-who already owned 25% of Reuters stock through their provincial papers. The M.P.s warned that such control might destroy Reuters' go-year reputation for trustworthy reporting. They also feared for the good name of BBC, Reuters' biggest customer, feared still more...
...style of which Wolfe is popularly supposed to have been incapable. Chickamauga, which Wolfe slicked up unnaturally in the vain hope of selling it to the Satevepost, is a respectable experiment in the U.S. vernacular, as un-Wolfeishly plain as weathered bone. Also included: a steely-clean character sketch of a rich old New Yorker waking up; an almost religious essay on loneliness; a hard spanking of a literary critic who might be William Lyon Phelps or Henry Seidel Canby; a Swiftian attack on Irishmen; a few poignant pages on Cousin Arnold in which is resurrected the snorting ghost...