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Waugh was already writing Decline and Fall, and he capped that literary success by a solid social advance: he married Evelyn Gardner. Later they were divorced...
...Love." The surface facts were easy enough to establish. Tito, in the Cominform's book of charges, was guilty of putting Yugoslavia (and himself) ahead of the Soviet Union (and Joseph Stalin). The Cominform did not really expect Tito to recant; they had tried this for weeks without success. Now they were putting it up to his party comrades in Yugoslavia to oust him and to "raise from below a new internationalist leadership...
Three years ago, the U.N. charter was signed at San Francisco. During ceremonies commemorating that all but forgotten anniversary, U.S. wartime Censor Byron Price said last week: "The United Nations has not become what it was intended to be. [It] cannot endure half success and half failure...
...life of a literary man who has achieved success," observed Somerset Maugham in the Atlantic, "is not as a rule interesting . . . His profession obliges him to devote a certain number of hours a day to his work...
...Success. The U.S. college graduate is 49 times as likely as the non-college man to rate Who's Who in America. And he is nearly 15 times as likely to make $10,000 a year (15.1% of the college graduates make that or more). The chances are two in three that he makes at least...