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Although our answer ("TIME says so!") may sound arbitrary, it is not intended to be-for when an outside expert or public figure is willing to let us quote him as authority, we are only too glad to do it. But when we cannot find authorities willing to vouch for essential facts our editors feel they should go on record...
...more in keeping with the times. In any case, "Away We Go" is an operetta, pure and simple, at its best, witty and charming, and at its worst, prime for a severe blue-pencilling. Not knowing Lynn Riggs' "Green Grow the Lilacs," the basis of the libretto, one cannot vouch for the faithfulness of the adaptation, only for its unevenness and absurdity...
Perhaps in the end we can align ourselves with the Washington admiral who told the press that he agreed with Colonel Kernan's title but couldn't vouch for the validity of all his theories. The only difference is that the admiral hadn't read the book...
Sometimes they ventured to tell each other stories. Pollock writes cautiously: "It is said-I don't vouch for it-that when President Wilson et ux. were here Mrs. W. asked the Queen what she thought about the Freedom of the Seas, and the Queen answered that she had not quite made up her mind about mixed bathing." Both men were insatiable readers; but books were not an end in themselves but a part of life, and they treated them with less formality than they treated one another. Typical Pollock treatment...
Hagel said that the pictures will have a 90 per cent chance of being run in Life, but he could not vouch for any complementary remarks, since Oliver Jensen a Yale man, will probably write the accompanying article...