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...matter of fact, Kathleen Winsor need never have written another line, but she seems to suffer from a continuing compulsion to act like an author. After Amber, she took a whack at fictionalized autobiography (Star Money) and fantasy (The Lovers), and flubbed both. Her latest offering, a raffish account of a smalltown childhood, sounds like a Booth Tarkington novel as retold by Erskine Caldwell. In the Winsor world, the war between the sexes starts early, and the casualty lists are stupendous. One of the combatants is Ruby, who at 16 already has "a rather sagging and accessible look...
Spotting a dandy opportunity to reacquaint Roman readers with an old friend and get in a gratuitous whack at the U.S. at the same time, Italy's conservative Il Tempo paid a call on top-ranking poet and philosophical Wild Man Ezra Pound at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington. Groused Pound, who is confined to St. Elizabeths' grounds on a much-argued diagnosis of legal insanity, faces trial on 19 counts of treason (he broadcast eccentric, violently pro-Axis speeches from Italy during World War II) if he gets out. "At first," said Pound to Il Tempo...
...Weekend Whack. No minister wanted to cut his own department much. Complained Labor Minister Albert Gazier, a Socialist: "I don't want to be known as Minister of Unemployment." Snapped Gaillard: "And I don't want to be remembered as Minister of Bankruptcy...
...they considered a personally obnoxious phrase, "Modern Republicanism." That was fine with Lyndon; he could use Larson to point up the Republican split. Second, the USIA's shrill critics in press and Congress had managed to spread the impression that USIA was an international boondoggle. Lyndon could therefore whack safely at USIA to prove that the Democrats are all for economy. Finally-and here came the perfect touch-Johnson came up with the idea of handing over to the State Department (which the House had cut by $47 million) nearly all of the $16 million lopped off the USIA...
...Disgusted." But it was left to Defense Secretary Wilson to whack the Chamber where it hurt. Asked by reporters to comment on Chamber charges that his department has wasted "billions" in bungled buying, Charlie Wilson replied: "I said to some of my friends that I was disgusted about the Chamber of Commerce. Security can't be cheap, you know. It's all right to be supercritical if you want to, if you have any constructive suggestions. But I don't know how to get 4,000,000 [Defense Department] people to be smarter quicker." Defending...