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...sympathetic correspondent watched Schumacher address a party meeting in Hannover and took away a frightening mental snapshot. "[When] he started to speak I could hardly believe my senses," wrote Leo Lania in the United Nations World. "Suddenly I felt as though I were back again in the late '205 in Berlin, at a Nazi meeting. It was not the content of Schumacher's speech that startled me. I had no objection to what he had to say . . . but the way he spoke was simply quite frightening. Unconsciously, he seemed to have acquired Hitler's terminology, his screeching...
...worry about money, but even so, he had trouble getting started. He dabbled in strictly formal portraits of his family and friends, took a brief fling at cubism in Paris, then went back home to find a style of his own. The Fascists, with their ideas of snapshot art, slowed him down. ("The fashionable thing to do was to paint life from a purely realistic point of view. It was difficult to escape the trend.") It was only after the war that Pirandello began finding the form that won him last week's exposition prize...
...aspect of your snapshot was hidden behind the general impression that all emergency facilities are available to the community as are the fire and police services-with no direct charge for the service. The cost to nonprofit hospitals of maintaining the 24-hour emergency service is [high]. Payment for the service is only token, the income falling far below the minimum costs...
Combat & Psychology. After the war came an era of reckless barnstorming and adventuring. Editor Jensen has unaccountably omitted the most vivid snapshot of that era, William Faulkner's Death Drag. But he has snagged some other good things: Anne Lindbergh reminisces about a weird Alaskan flight; Antoine de Saint-Exupery describes a Patagonian cyclone; and James Thurber, in his wonderful story, The Greatest Man in the World, draws a satiric profile of Pal Smurch, the cocky little urchin who flew nonstop around the world-the adulation went to his head so badly that he had to be pushed...
Other members scowled. This, they said, was just what could be expected from an M.P. who had prepared for politics by writing musical comedies, novels (The Water Gipsies, Holy Deadlock) and humorous essays for Punch. But no one is likely to scowl at Independent Member, a sprightly, informal snapshot of the Mother of Parliaments with her hair down and her slip showing...