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...Received the $3,750,000,000 British loan bill endorsed (20 to 5) by the Banking & Currency Committee, including the Committee's influential, ranking Republican member, Michigan's Jesse Wolcott...
...Wolcott Fuller...
TIME'S [March 11] direct quotation of Mr. Wolcott Gibbs's opinion on the Maxwell Anderson-Truckline Café fracas seems a bit cavalier on the surface, since Mr. Gibbs's published New Yorker version is worded quite differently from TIME'S. Realizing, however that TIME had no chance for a gander at the forthcoming New Yorker review, I hazard the following free translation of the probable situation...
What was probably the last word belonged to the New Yorker's Wolcott Gibbs, whose review had not yet appeared. Said he: "I'd say offhand that there are only about three newspaper reviewers here who are competent to write about anything, but it is absolutely absurd to make an issue out of this play, which has no merit whatsoever...
After ten months as an emergency cinema critic for the New Yorker, waspy, wispy Wolcott Gibbs explained to readers of the Saturday Review of Literature why he will never again try to review movies...