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...wish to direct your attention to a statement appearing on p. 32 of the Oct. 14 issue of TIME, wherein I was referred to in a vicious and unwarranted manner. Whether a literary wag said it or whether TIME is using that as a cover is immaterial. The printing of such a statement in TIME is inexcusable and the only conclusion that I can arrive at is that it was deliberate inasmuch as I was the only one singled out in such a manner...
...There was plenty to buzz about. There was the exciting fact that The Iceman Cometh was the first new O'Neill play to be produced since Days without End (1934). There was its cryptic title, clumsily poetic, naively sardonic and intensely O'Neillian, which caused one foreboding wag to suggest that a better name would be The Ice Tray Always Sticks Twice. The play had been rehearsed under heavy wrappings of secrecy. Almost nobody in the audience was sure what it was about, though some had paid $25 a seat to find out. But some people were already...
...rnberg had merely meted out the traditional victor's law over the vanquished. When a newsman asked General Eisenhower whether he believed he would have been hanged by the Germans, had the war gone the other way, Eisenhower answered smilingly: "Such thoughts you have!" A literary wag last week put such thoughts into a political fantasy. Excerpts...
Riot Act. In Brighton, Mass., a wag advertised 15 apartments for rent, in the Brighton Citizen, gave the police-station phone number...
...bogus as the Cardiff Giant, for whether or not there were Scandinavians in the Middle West in the latter, half of the 14th Century, there certainly have been plenty of them there since the latter half of the 19th Century. If it is hard to believe that any learned wag would bother to cut a long runic inscription as a practical joke, it is also hard to believe that a lost and frightened traveler would take the time to do so in grim earnest...