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Partnership Party. The Axis could take no comfort from the election, and made only the feeblest attempts to do so. As concerned the war, the mandate was clear: the Republican Party was now a full-fledged partner. No longer could the Republican minority in Congress sit by as grandstand critic, make its protests for the record, leave policy up to the New Deal, take none of the responsibilities and wait to capitalize on the mistakes. Henceforth, if the war went badly, the G.O.P. would share the blame...
Last August he set off on a tour of Hawaii, Palmyra, the Fijis, the New Hebrides, New Caledonia, the Solomons. When he returned, he wrote eight analytical reports. By last week, when the Times published the final installment, Hanson Baldwin's stature as a military reporter and critic had enormously increased...
...Manhattan's Town Hall dour Wanda Landowska took her bow in a harpsichord recital which critics pronounced the finest tinkling of its kind. At Carnegie Hall a recital by dignified Pianist Egon Petri followed the recital of an indomitable U.S. lady violinist, Byrd Elliot, who perennially performs before an audience that would scarcely strain the capacity of an average front parlor. Baritone Yves Tinayre, accompanied by a troop of dramatic dancers, moaned the music of medieval French masters in a recital which one critic described as "constricted cooing...
Bespectacled, sandy-haired Goodman Ace was a drama critic on a Kansas City newspaper in 1930, eking out his small salary with some local weekly broadcasts. (One was called Where's a Good Show?, another consisted of reading the funnies.) One day, as he was ending a broadcast, a studio director shoved a hastily scribbled note under his nose: he would have to fill in for the next 15 minutes. Ace signaled his wife, who was in the studio, spent the next quarter-hour in goofy, unrehearsed chatter with Jane, about a bridge game the night before...
...Forbes, had ever heard of a female copyreader. Forbes did not even like to think of one. The rest of the Journal staff, strong men all, paled. But, game to the core, Ayers hired six female copyreaders: his own secretary, the wife of the Journal's drama critic, the wife of another Journal employe, a publicity man's secretary, a trade publication employe, and a likely candidate fresh from Northwestern University's journalism school...