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Despite this disarmingly candid appeal, readers should be warned not to rush to the flamboyant Armenian's fiscal relief unless they are incurable addicts of the wacky, the whimsical and the whopperish. Only in Saroyan, perhaps, could one meet the vice president of a cemetery company who yearns to write ad copy like "Inter here. A lot for your money." Or the off-key executive who plays Cupid by posting a lonely young man in an empty cubbyhole in the piano warehouse with no duties except to wait for the right girl to come along. She does. Saroyan alternates...
...candid letter to the London Daily Express, which recently ran a music column headed "Is Bing Crosby Going Out -or Has He Gone?," the Old (52) Groaner groaned: "I'm 'long gone.' I just don't sing as well as I used to ... The feel for a song isn't there, the desire to sing, to be in action-and when this is absent, so is the style." Modest Millionaire Crosby was not upset by prospects of oblivion. "Honestly, I think I've stretched a talent which is so thin that...
...half truths and colored prose seem to completely obviate Mr. Norris' call for an "analytical and candid approach" to the present political campaign. Let Mr. Norris take a lesson from Mr. Stevenson who, in referring to President Eisenhower's truth campaign, said "Let the truth begin at home." Arthur T. Anderson...
...this be prosperity, it is lying upon far from solid foundations. It smacks of the old formula, Prosperity=Waste, Borrow, Produce, Spend, Waste. It is to be hoped that the President, in his campaign, will speak of "prosperity" in analytical and candid, rather than boastful, terms...
With Love from Gracie, by Grace Hegger Lewis. Candid reminiscences by the first wife of Sinclair Lewis about life with the man who created Babbitt very nearly in his own image (TIME, Sept...