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...Charivaria--tidbits from current events, something like the New Yorker's Talk of the Town--are incomparably better in the original, but tongue-in-cheek items are probably the hardest of all writing to spoof. There is an excellent story about the birth of a game called "Museum Ball" which probably comes closer to the witty Punch style than anything else in the issue, though a poem on queues is also amusing. The play reviews, especially a report of a new musical comedy by Mr. T. S. Eliot called, "The First Serpent," are the best actual parody in the magazine...
...Other Cheek. He also thought the U.S. should use its A-bomb against the Chinese troops if & when the generals think it militarily practical. "We should not be afraid of it on moral grounds," said Douglas. "You can kill a man just as much with a rifle or a machine-gun bullet ... as you can with an atomic bomb...
...have pretended that the attack of the North Koreans was an attack by North Koreans alone . . . We are pretending that the attack of the Chinese Communists is an isolated act whereas we know that it is with the consent and direction of Russia. We have turned the other cheek twice and I believe in a limited application of the Sermon on the Mount. But I also believe in the American slogan, three strikes...
...I.P.S. man Francisco Mereiles narrowly missed the same fate on a peacemaking expedition near the Chavantes' Serra do Roncador (Snoring Mountain). Ambushed, he whipped his gift-laden burro off into the jungle and escaped while the Indians chased and killed the burro. Manfully turning the other deep-tanned cheek, Mereiles kept right on wooing the Chavantes with gifts of cloth and aluminum pots dropped strategically along their forest trails. Eventually, tribesmen began slipping across to the white man's side of the River of Deaths, asking for gifts and gulping down all the food in sight...
Last week the front pages of Red China's newspapers blossomed with "popular demands" that the Chinese army push the "U.S. imperialists" out of Korea. So far the U.N. had treated the belligerent Peking regime with anxious forbearance, and a turn-the-other-cheek mildness. But if Communist troops and aircraft continued to cross the border, sooner or later there would be no choice for the U.N. command except to blow up the Yalu River dams and bridges, to bomb airfields and troop concentrations in Manchuria...