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...flurry over whether London's statue to F.D.R. should show him sitting or standing (TIME, Nov. 25) was building into a williwaw. In typical British fashion, most of the wind was blowing up & down the letters-to-the-editor columns in short, violent gusts...
...matter of prestige. Lean, hardheaded Finance Minister René Pleven insisted that a small, tight, mechanized force was all that was necessary: in tomorrow's atomic war a massive array of manpower would be silly. Last week the Cabinet met in Paris, listened for five hours to the williwaw of conflicting opinions. The man who does France's bookkeeping finally...
Wells's fans were ravished by this williwaw of invective. Said British Reviewer Michael Foot: "Wells has produced a book rich with the flavor of Paris in the heyday of the terror. It might even have been written by the immortal Marat, whom Wells himself, in his Outline of History, has rescued from the clutches of defamation. From cover to cover it is angry, explosive and morally indignant. It revives all that is best in the great tradition of English invective." Others were reminded of a line from T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land: "Voices singing...
...announcement of Frankie's appearance in the Hollywood Bowl had thrown Los Angeles high-brow music lovers into a self-righteous williwaw, Sinatra's fans at Pasadena, where he got off the train, into a squealing ecstasy (see cut). But Frankie's Los Angeles symphonic debut was like the calm after the storm...
...condemned as a "slacker" and "coward." Silently, Edsel shouldered his share of managing the company, knowing that the bitter storm was puffed up by Republican politicians. The deferment was justified. But this was Edsel's first experience in the storms which swirled about his father. The next williwaw came in 1919, when Henry Ford rowed bitterly with Ford stockholders, finally bought them out for $75,000,000 ($70,000,000 of which was borrowed from hated Wall Street) and installed Edsel as president. Henry Ford had learned that Edsel's great value was in soothing the rows...