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...shaking hands with new. The air was soon blue with tobacco smoke. Georges Bidault, apparently putting aside for the occasion the worry of trying to form a new Cabinet, squirmed agilely through the pack in his capacity of host-he failed to notice the repressed wince as he inadvertently trod on Molotov's toe. It was Molotov who set the tone by greeting his old enemy Bevin with "Davaite govorit korotko" (let's make this one snappy!). "Very good," said Bevin...
Author Algernon Blackwood, a bald, tall (6 ft. 2 in.) Englishman now 77, is still up to his old tricks. The Doll is his first book in ten years. It consists of merely two longish stories (the other: The Trod), both typical old-style Blackwood: sinister, spooky, uncanny. To the literal-minded, such writing appears to be raving nonsense. So, in one sense, it surely is, but Blackwood is almost as artful at making it seem plausible as Edgar Allan Poe. Poe's stories are mysterious and terrifying, but for the most part they can be explained in perfectly...
...three years, turkeys and cattle had gobbled and grazed where the masters once trod. Last week the Augusta National Golf Club was open again. The dream golf course outside Augusta, Ga., built by and for Bobby Jones, had so much botanical beauty about that each hole had a flowery name (Flowering Peach, Yellow Jasmine, Spanish Dagger, Azalea). Bobby Jones, in semiretirement, played his one tournament a year there against masters and past masters only. This time 50 crack golfers were there-and Bobby, now 44, was back...
When the Davis Cup finals are decided at Melbourne's Kooyong courts next December, the defending Australian team will be Bromwich and Pails in singles, Bromwich and Quist in the doubles. Said Australia's tennis boss Sir Norman Brookes, one of the wiliest players who ever trod a court: "We hope to retain the Davis Cup for a couple of years, at least . . . that is, if you'll allow me to pick the [U.S.] team...
Reason & Unreason. Between Indonesians and Dutch, the British muddled. (Technically they were present in the Indies to accept the Jap surrender and to keep order during the process.) With India, Burma and Malaya in the back of their minds, they trod warily, favoring neither full native autonomy nor a return to prewar colonialism. "If the Dutch make a reasonable offer," said a British spokesman, "the rest depends on the Indonesians. We can only satisfy reason; then we must deal with unreason." Significantly he added: "If matters come to the use of force by the Dutch, world opinion will not stand...