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...usually affable toward U.S. visitors. One U.S. authoress-Agnes Smedley-reported this impression: "The tall, forbidding figure lumbered toward us and a high-pitched voice greeted us. Then two hands grasped mine; they were as long and sensitive as a woman's . . . Whatever else he might be, he was an esthete . . . He asked a thousand questions . . . We spoke of India; of literature; once he asked me if I had ever loved any man, and why, and what love meant...
...than routing clerks. The commissars censor every bit of copy, iron out minor kinks in the party line, or send the stories and headlines back to be rewritten if the facts don't fit the party's position of the day. For Worker staffers and contributors-Agnes Smedley, Rob Hall, Howard Fast et al.-the line is as inevitable and as obvious in news story, editorial or literary column as red rogue's yarn-the colored strand that runs through Royal Navy cordage. Example: the presidential inauguration story was headlined: TRUMAN REBUFFS SOVIET PEACE...
Firing a burst of compressed air down Perelman's gullet, the dentist chortled:"Well, friend, you may as well know the worst. These are the teeth of an 80-year-old man. . . . Who put those [inlays] in - a steamfitter? . . . Miss Smedley, how many times have I told you not to count the patient's money in front of him? Take the wallet outside and go through it there. . . . H'm'm'm, a cleft palate. . . . While we're at it, I think we'd better tear out those lowers with a jackhammer...
...person who had no previous knowledge of the current crisis in China were to read this week's issue of TIME he would get just as biased and inaccurate a picture as he would from Agnes Smedley's Battle Hymn of China. Since when have two wrongs made a right...
Kelleher was general chairman for the evening's entertainment, and was assisted by Sid Phelps and Albert Smedley, while the M.P.O.'s took charge of refreshments...