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...Communism is another stimulant to Turkish suspicion. Modern Turkey is organized on strict totalitarian lines and is the product of a revolution; 20 years of existence have not yet fully stabilized it. The westernization program of Kamâl Atatürk lifted it out of a medieval slough, but economically and financially it is still far from healthy, and wartime difficulties have stimulated latent inflation...
...characters are dangerously ordinary people, a farmer and his wife, their eldest son, his girl, a soldier from Brooklyn, an intellectual, etc. But Anderson's writing and the cast's understanding acting lift the play from the slough of folksy despond. Together they delicately steer the farmer's son through his promised year of military training and an unconsummated love affair, to a hero's death on Bataan without once approaching the level on which Hollywood would treat such a story. This story, after all, is very close to us. Raised during the twenty years of peace and pacifism...
...dear dignity's sake, two jazzmen prepared to slough their nicknames. As opening wedge, "Pee Wee" Irwin demanded billing as George "Pee Wee" Irwin. "Muggsy" Spanier became Francis "Muggsy" Spanier. "Fats" Waller, "Cootie" Williams, "Wingy" Mannone, "Buster" Bailey stood...
...when such affairs ended, and the candidate, even if passed, was in a slough of despond over his showing, Mr. Kittredge, whose own vast strength was accompanied by mersy could pour out grace abounding upon the chief of sinners...
Last week the oldest and the biggest decided to pool their facilities and troubles, become Standard & Poor's Corp., slough off Standard's expensive printing plant, do business henceforth with a combined staff of about 900. Chairman of the board of the new company is Paul Babson, 46, cousin of famed Statistician Roger Ward Babson, who runs the Babson Statistical Organization. With the Standard-Poor's merger, the Babson family moves a long way toward cornering the market on advisory services. Other Paul Babson enterprises: his own United Business Service, a directorship in the Kiplinger Washington Agency...