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...political tricks and pressures; the general objectivity of the press-all these seemed to be examples of what campaigners have called the American way of doing things, a slow way, inefficient by totalitarian standards, but in which no individual's rights are lost. Said Scripps-Howard's Columnist Ray Clapper: "Doing it the slower way means that when the Lend-Lease Bill is passed it will stand as the deliberate and considerate action of Congress, taken after full and fair hearing had been given to the opposition. No one can say he was gagged...
This was the Florida of the headlines, of the columns, of salesgirls' dreams. It was the Florida which Columnist Lucius Beebe last week called "the last Gomorrah, the ultimate Babylon, the final Gnome-Rhone-Jupiter-Whirlwind, superdeluxe, extra-special, colossal, double-feature and Zombie-ridden madhouse of the world." And it was as far from the rest of Florida as Mr. Beebe was from the many-millioned humanity of his own Manhattan...
Signed for a two-year contract with the Bell Syndicate, Pundit Thompson transfers her column to the arch-New Deal New York Post, after five years with the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune.* Said Columnist Thompson, of her showdown with the Herald Tribune: "We just agreed to disagree. I like the Herald Tribune and we've had pleasant relations. I think everyone understands there was a difference of opinion. ... It goes back to the campaign, so what's the use of talking about it now?" Herald Tribune men doubted that any syndicate could better its record...
Celebrating a half-century of teaching, the Harvard Teachers Association will hold its fiftieth annual meeting here tomorrow. Columnist Walter Lippmann, who was to have been the featured speaker on the occasion, will not be present...
...officers with rumpled pants, stringy cravats. Most of the gibing has been done at officers in Washington, where wearing uniforms except on unusual or ceremonial occasions is distinctly bad form. (The custom originated as a supposed sop to pacifists and Congressmen with antimilitary constituencies.) Last week, awl-tongued Columnist Westbrook Pegler, an old Navyman, joined the chorus of gibers. Wrote...