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Nevertheless, Bevin argued that, elections or no, the Poles in Anders' army should go home. Little by little Anders got the idea. Anders must depend on British transport facilities. If the general did not cooperate, he might find it even harder to rejoin his troops in Italy than to get a hotel room in London...
...There is a constant pull exerted . . . to write a bad review of a play. Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasms. Their bons mots, which are quoted and remembered, are always capsule damnations, cutting and sour. Their reputations, and I suppose their pay, depend, then, upon disliking plays . . . In no other art is there anything vaguely resembling this. . . . [Critics] become Shakespeare's peer. "It was better in France. There the critics were perceptive and corrupt. The managers paid them off and bought good reviews and the plays were left to the honest decision...
...There is a constant pull exerted . . . to write a bad review of a play. Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasms. Their bons mots, which are quoted and remembered, are always capsule damnations, cutting and sour. Their reputations, and I suppose their pay, depend, then, upon disliking plays . . . In no other art is there anything vaguely resembling this. . . . [Critics] become Shakespeare's peer. "It was better in France. There the critics were perceptive and corrupt. The managers paid them off and bought good reviews and the plays were left to the honest decision...
...demands of old customers, let alone those of newcomers. Nevertheless, the K-F hullabaloo worked its usual magic. At week's end Kaiser announced triumphantly that U.S. Steel and Great Lakes Steel (subsidiary of National Steel) had promised enough steel. Now Joe & Henry would not have to depend on aluminum. Nevertheless, they obligingly piled some 460 lbs. atop a piece to show its strength...
Loran. When air lines cross the oceans, they will be guided by war-born loran (LOng RAnge Navigation), a whole new system of navigation which does not depend on celestial observations or hit-or-miss dead reckoning. The U.S. Coast Guard already operates 57 loran stations on the shores and islands of the Atlantic and Pacific. Each has an effective range of 600 to 800 miles by day, and up to 1,400 miles by night. A worldwide network of 70 stations is in the cards...