Word: suspects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quietly ironic points appear, though not so plainly that readers can be sure of the author's intent. Harg's people, stumbling, awkward, terrified, sometimes brutal, are far more human and likable than the more civilized, capable Cro-Magnons. Here & there through the book some readers may suspect that Author Fisher is actually writing a modern allegory, placing his story in prehistoric times because its picture of humanity would be too harsh if laid in the here...
...frankly capitalistic U.S. businessmen who have visited and charmed the Rusians: ex-U.S. Ambassador Joe Davies, the late Wendell Willkie, ex-WPBoss Donald Nelson, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Eric Johnston. But the nasty U.S. correspondent-a vicious roasting of all American journalists who dare to suspect or find one flaw in the Soviet system-was harder to place. Most obvious counterpart in Soviet eyes: the Reader's Digest's William L. White, foreign correspondent and author (They Were Expendable), who accompanied Eric Johnston to Russia last summer. Fortnight ago, Reporter White's Report...
...rotten through and through." In the years between wars the churches did less than they might have to disprove this slander. Like many of Europe's churches, the Lutheran Church of Norway was a state establishment. Pastors living comfortably on state-provided farms and holdings were often held suspect by their poorer neighbors. Many of the common people thought them complacent and bourgeois; young intellectuals scoffed at both the Church...
...acres, the yield was 270 lbs. of beans an acre. This year 80,000 acres of mungs were planted, an estimated 16.8 million Ibs. of beans harvested. Most of the harvest was trucked to Johnson's busy grain elevator. In fact, some farmers darkly suspect that Johnson cornered the mung market this year, and is making a killing. He denies it. But he bought all the beans he could get, at from 10 to 18? a lb.. last week was shipping them out to Chinese buyers in New York and San Francisco at a new high price...
...Coburn is of the opinion that there are better things for a handsome widow to do than fill her dead husband's political and social boots; when his prim housekeeper asks what, he replies, "I'm afraid you wouldn't remember." Mayoress Dunne begins uneasily to suspect that the old man is right when, in Manhattan, she meets the man who is to make the damaged statue of her husband as good as new. Sculptor Boyer follows her home and sets up shop in the garage. Before long Miss Dunne's infatuated stepdaughter is pinning...