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...editor of the Seattle Times, Griffith went east in 1942 on a Nieman fellowship, then joined TIME. When foreign news duties took Griffith to Europe, he, like many another American, fell under the spell of the Continent's ancient glories, but coolly assessed its caretaker, rather than dare-taker, cultures. He admired the well-bred aplomb of knowledgeable Englishmen whose ease of manner gives "the impression of having already lived once," but found "too many reserved seats" in English life. He was drawn to the independent French spirit of live-and-let-live, but noted the spiritual vacuum...
...compliment in silence. As he walked down the steps to his seat with Sebbie, it seemed as if everyone he knew was sitting around him. For a moment he considered treating Sebbie as if he were a disagreeable ticket-taker who was taking advantage of him. Friends at the club, a fellow who had roomed down the hall freshman year, a ex-girl friend--their voices and waving arms pursued him like Furies as he fought his way to a seat beside Sebbie, who had wasted no time in finding Row L., Seat...
...There seems virtually no chance that Republicans can recapture control of either the House of Representatives or the Senate," reported Political Pulse Taker Sam Lubell this week. But Lubell, one of the few honest-to-grassroots doorbell ringers among the pollsters, found enough puzzling circumstances in his just completed eleven-state tour to make him hedge his predictions. "On many important issues," he wrote, "the voters are almost evenly torn between conflicting emotions. Effective campaigning could bring about a fairly close-fought election...
...weatherman, political forecasters have need for ultrasensitive barometers. Partisan winds can shift suddenly, quickening hopes in one camp, dashing dreams in the other. Poll Taker George Gallup's moistened finger has sensed a freshening Republican breeze that could promise more campaign thunder and lightning than the Democrats had predicted. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Changing Campaign. And nowhere is a worrying Democrat more worried about changing political pressures than in California. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS' cover story, Just Plain...
...startled easygoing Cape Codders by decreeing black tie the style at his lavish parties.* He sparked the move to stage a nationwide art festival, smooth-talked some 300 year-round residents into contributing their time and effort free "for the good of Provincetown." He acts as second ticket-taker at his museum (and makes the volunteer workers pay the going $1.50 for the catalogue), while his wife Jean handles lunch-relief shifts at the festival gates. Some Provincetowners have found Chrysler's headlong pursuit of culture distasteful, but they appreciate "the artistic climate created" by his enterprise...