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...Less fatigued than Horizon's conscientious Editor Cyril Connolly, TIME editors sanguinely observe that pessimism among editors is not infrequently a sign of editorial health. With tongue only lightly in cheek, TIME applauds the shrewd observation of Harvard's late President Eliot: "Things seem to be going fairly well, now that a spirit of pessimism prevails in all departments...
These numbers are photographed in two extreme yet simple forms of lighting: chiaroscuro, in which the line of a cheek, the wrinkle of a sleeve, the keys of a fingered saxophone, appear as if drawn in white ink on black paper; and its opposite, in which the musicians appear in almost featureless silhouette against a staring, blank white background...
...second trip, they found Sir Eric. He was dead, "crouched as though he had been watching someone." A .30-caliber bullet from a U.S. Army carbine had pierced his left cheek, entered his body. Fifty yards away British police and U.S. Army MPs found ten empty cartridges, two wads of chewing gum. The rest was easy: the investigation moved to a U.S. Army airdrome near...
Palmiro Togliatti had listened with a thin smile flickering across his face. As Nenni finished, Togliatti threw his arms around him and they clinched in a cheek-kissing embrace...
John P. Marquand, shy, tongue-in-cheek, best-selling satirist, explained that he had changed from hacking out Satevepost serials to a novel-a-year pace to escape high income taxes, only to find that his system had backfired and he had to pay higher taxes than ever.* But he defended the one-a-year system anyhow, declared: "Few people realize how much good writing can be traced to the income...