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Personality: Big (6 ft. 1 in.; 200 Ibs.) Bill Knowland walks with fast, seven-league strides which seem to symbolize his driving ambition and dedication to work. His well-written speeches are delivered in the unmodulated, protesting tone of an overworked undertaker. To reporters, he speaks largely in pompous platitudes. He does not smoke, is a Methodist and a joiner (a Mason, an Eagle, a Moose, and a Native Son of the Golden West...
...opening article by D. J. Golden, not even quotations from Gray, Coleridge, or Shelley warrant the almost two columns of space. Limpert characterizes his own "Something for the Pit" with his phrase ". . . a symphony of boredom . . ." J. F. Fletcher's "Imogene and the Parrot" is well-written, but no more, and the attempt at high-pressure humor in "A Message to Ganglia" is sadly unsuccessful...
Last week, back in Manhattan at his own request for reassignment to the Times's city staff, Salisbury was able to answer his critics by writing "for the first time . . without the restrictions of censorship or the fear of it." His 14-part series was not only a well-written, fresh, firsthand report on Russian Communism. It also vividly demonstrated how misleading many of his censored Times stories were. (Wailed Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker: "Why did Salisbury write one thing from Moscow and the opposite from New York?") Explained Salisbury: "[This is] the real story...
Today, his style remains pretty much the same, but he has escaped gimmicks ("Sure there's a fast buck in the echo chamber, but it can't last"). His only trick lies in changing the pace of the songs he records (e.g., jump tunes, ballads, well-written novelty songs). "Music is getting better," Frankie says, and so is he. "Everything's ahead of me. Man, I'm on top of the world. I'm buoyant...
...America) leads off with The Devil Is a Protestant, a mildly humorous essay contrasting the austerities of Protestant worship and Roman Catholicism's stress on rich symbolisms. Any Graves fan can see that a talented righthander has been giving his left hand a workout. But there are well-written, offbeat stories by such U.S. writers as Alfred Chester and Elizabeth Hardwick that few magazines would try out on their readers. The princess thought they were worth Drinting, and she was right. Poetry is another of the princess' passions, and Botteghe has it in abundance. It ranges from...