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Welcome. Three days before ALL rang in New Deal ears, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace wrote in the New York Times: "We badly need a new alignment: conservatives versus liberals; those who yearn for a return of the dead past versus those who feel that human intelligence can lead us to a far more general abundance and peace between warring groups. With the old crowd whimpering the same old incantations, the faster the show-down comes and the more definite the division between the Old Dealers and the New Dealers of both present parties, the better...
...sincere and gifted artist. . . . Miro's way with color is first class, in fact he is about the most thrilling colorist in the world today. ... In the new compositions facts are almost dispensed with completely. There remains however a color so lovely that the pure in heart must yearn to employ...
...young and healthy and capable of earning her own living, she should do so. But. more and more, we see around us middle-aged couples who, after having lived together comparatively happily for many years, suddenly reach the divorce courts, usually because the men, now at the Dangerous Age, yearn for young blood. Is there no moral obligation due these women who have given the best years of their lives to their husbands, borne them children, spurred them on to success? They are now, unlike their fickle husbands, past the age of desirability in either the business or the marriage...
Your newly acquired sports colyumnist, W. F. C. ("Hank") Foster is one of the most naively humorous writers in contemporary journalism! His contributions, coming in the midst of all the serious chapel business, are really refreshing. They make me yearn for the pleasant days in Freshman English when our theses, anecdotes, and disquisitions used to be read aloud before a squirming audience...
...Priestley's broadside, illogical and uninformed as it is, serves American snobbery jolly well right. Year after year we submit to the patronage of a procession of such visitors, turn the other cheek, and apparently yearn for a third, that we might also turn it. "If it takes whole lecture shiploads of Mr. Priestleys to make the long lethargic American worm turn, then I am for whole lecture shiploads of visiting patronizers seeking American patronage." Charles Dickens was among the first British novelists to profit from cracking America across the face;† and, as Mr. Priestley said last week...