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Leafing through the Sept. 15 issue of Vogue, British Author George Orwell, literary critic (Dickens, Dali and Others) and political satirist (Animal Farm), ran across a picture of himself in Vogue's "spotlight," found himself described as a "plain speaker" and a "direct writer." Leafing a little more, he generated some direct thoughts on U.S. fashions, women and mores. Last week the New Republic printed them...
...thing, John could not keep up his present pace much longer. For another, he liked to keep his United Mine Workers well in the van of other unions-and himself in the spotlight. Quite obviously, he also wanted to get his latest demands down and the issue settled before the new Congress meets in January and revises labor legislation...
...investigation. And while the world sits on the brink of disaster, Mr. Adam, of Tarrytown, N. Y., gives birth to a normal baby girl and Mr. Adam goes to Washington as the greatest hero since Lindbergh. Such is the new moved by journalist Frank, who deftly beams a spotlight on the tightrope that the ordinary Joe and wife must tread during an atomic...
...long now we have tolerated . . . the cynical and irresponsible ones among us. We have allowed them to escape in the crowd for lack of a spotlight to single them out. ... All this spells out a strong case to me for a strengthened and better-enforced Code of Standards. ... I would like to see a Code which would serve to enhance all stations subscribing to it, and raise serious questions about stations which offend against it. ... As I see it now, there is only one acceptable way to enforce it-and that is, the spotlight of publicity...
...Louis Budenz put the spotlight on the real Brain of U.S. Communism? Those who know Communists best thought that if Gerhart Eisler was not the top man he was surely one of the top man's top men. They also thought it was smart to keep him in the U.S.-a well-trained German Communist could be much more troublesome to the U.S. in Germany than he could, under the spotlight, in the U.S. itself...