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...some underwriters (like Dillon, Read) and to big exchange members, such off-the-market distributions have been a lucrative sideline to regular business. But the rank & file of Stock Exchange members have had to stand by and squirm while a lot of potential commissions went over the counter & far away. Many a broker wondered last week whether the Big Board was about to become merely a device for establishing quotations, while the business went elsewhere. Their only consolation: that big blocks of stock like Harkness' are being distributed into small investors' hands, whence it is likelier than before...
Those who still squirm under the political sermons of "Foreign Correspondent," "The Great Dictator," & Co. will distrust "Escape" for its subject matter alone. But with the exception of one outburst from anti-Nazi Nazimova ("whose tongue is her freedom"), there are no harangues on fascism in general; and the spectator is relied upon to hate the Nazis out of his own accord. In fact the rescuer of prisoner Nazimova is the uniformed concentration camp doctor, a Nazi and a lovable chap besides. As for the general, villain of the drama, he fills his part with such dignity and dapper looks...
...favorite gripe: big, fat capitalists and their de facto control of our de jure Government. Under his microscope went 60 of the fattest with their families, their incomes, their politics, their philanthropies. He wrote an erudite bombshell of questionable accuracy titled America's 60 Families, watched his subjects squirm while Secretary Ickes and then Assistant Attorney General Jackson quoted it with gusto. Within less than a year the families were sprawled under more powerful microscopes as the Temporary National Economic Committee made a study of corporate practices and controls...
ESCAPE WITH ME-An Oriental Sketch Book-Osbert Sltwell-Harrison-Hilton ($3). For the first 50 pages, readers may squirm at Osbert Sitwell's mannerisms (which include frequent use of the word "alas"). For the remaining 265 pages they may enjoy his style, which is elaborate, delicately colorful, at times moving. His impressions of Angkor Wat in French IndoChina and the Forbidden City in Peking have an atmosphere such as might now be found in the report of a traveler of the Fifth Century A. D. who first examined the ruins of Babylon and then went on to live...
...necessary to poke around beneath the facts and to emerge with some dubious interpretations. It is necessary to attribute to Mr. Greene the most blatant sort of insincerity. At the very least, it requires imputing to him a certain amount of unconscious hypocrisy--an over-readiness to squirm out of a previous decision in Mr. Browder's favor. Only by reading between the lines can the bogey of suppression be conjured...