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This book, by the tireless fabricator of Men of Good Will, is not one of the series; it is a graceful little vacation-piece on the old subject of The Visiting Foreigner. This time the foreigner is no charmer of women's clubs but a likable middle-aged Frenchman, the exiled professor Albert Salsette. He gets to Manhattan in the spring of 1941, and his old friend Jules Remains shows him around. They see little of that world outside Greater New York. But as far as they go, their sharp eyes, fresh minds and Gallic talent for analysis...
Loeffler: A Pagan Poem (Eastman-Rochester Symphony conducted by Howard Hanson; Victor; 6 sides). A tireless champion of U.S. composers turns here to an adopted son: bearded, Alsatian-born Charles Martin Loeffler, the Boston Symphony's assistant concertmaster for 19 years. Loeffler's Debussylike masterpiece is played with shrewd feeling for climax...
...Roosevelt said-she was talking about Pearl Harbor-that official mistakes only reflected the people. Senator Walsh, tireless foe of smugness, spoke of the "general smugness of the American people." "In too many instances," said Connecticut's Senator Maloney, "our people are concluding that the war is won and that there is no great danger or difficulty ahead." Yes, said the New York Times's military expert Hanson Baldwin, "we are slothful with fat pride...
...Marines just because it is a convenient method of prolonging their existence around the vicinity of Harvard Square will get an unpleasant awakening when they find themselves having to live up to the corp's expectations of an "active leader of men . . . forceful, aggressive, determined, courageous, and endowed with tireless endurance." Washington may let students finish college, but it wants more than gratitude in return...
Died. "Judge" Joseph Frederick Rutherford, 71, founder and guiding spirit of the energetically anticlerical, antiwar, anti-State Jehovah's Witnesses sect; in San Diego. A tireless orator, he was a youthful admirer of Orator William Jennings Bryan, affected a high-standing wing collar, string tie, capacious hat. He was legal adviser to Sectarian Charles Taze Russell, leader of the "Russellites," took over the organization after Russell's death in 1916, renamed it Jehovah's Witnesses, built it into a group claiming two million members. Rutherford was jailed in World War I for advocating war resistance, was released...