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...ultraconservative, Red-hating Sir Walter Citrine. As late as a fortnight ago, Sir Walter still had his doubts about W.F.T.U. But at Paris Russia's Michael P. Tarasov was most conciliatory. Between the Communists and the Citrine group, the C.I.O.'s wily Sidney Hillman threaded a complex skein of compromise...
Into this explosive situation last week trod President Truman. As is his wont, the President simplified the complex situation...
Without Charity. From Washington, the whole question of U.S. postwar loans looked considerably more complex...
...answer was the Yukon town of Whitehorse-as a bank clerk once more, but a bank clerk with what he calls an "author complex." In Whitehorse he was not particularly popular. ("I have never been popular. To be popular is to win the applause of people whose esteem is often not worth the winning.") His one social accomplishment was his recitation of Casey at the Bat, Gunga Din, The Face on the Barroom Floor...
...things done in the midnight sun. . . . Though I did not know it [The Cremation of Sam McGee] was to be the keystone of my success." For more than a year "McGrew" and "McGee" lay with a sheaf of other manuscripts among Service's shirts. At last his "author complex" drove him to send them off to a publisher with oo to pay for 104 their private printing. The composing-room crew, who set up the ringing, romping lines in type, were so enthusiastic that the publisher returned Service's $100 and decided to take a chance...