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...recalled from all book dealers Roosevelt, The Story of a, Friendship, by Owen Wister, (TIME, June 23) book reviewers were puzzled, historians baffled, as to what was the matter with the book. The publishers spoke vaguely of "certain corrections'' it was "necessary" to make but declined to explain what grave thing was forcing them to expend perhaps $100,000 on repaging, replating, reprinting, rebinding. Author Wister was in Europe. His family referred to "anonymous protests...
...Capitol he entered the ornate President's Room, just off the Senate lobby. Looking down on him from the ceiling was the gaudy optic which guides explain is the "Eye of God" looking down on all that happens in that room. The President was ahead of time. Senators and Representatives flocked in, shook his hand. He smiled, puffed on a cigar, looked happy. Soon these Congressmen and after them the Senators would be out of Washington and then Washington would be a more habitable place...
Mystery. When Mr. Mills did arrive in Paris, he carefully explained he was going on a holiday yachting trip in the Mediterranean. Nevertheless his presence in France generated an atmosphere of intense expectancy. Was his story of the usual diplomatic kind that conceals a secret mission of high international import? He insisted he would see no French officials ?and then he waited over 24 hours on the chance of conferring with Premier André Tardieu. A mysterious appointment was made for 5 p.m. The French Premier waited two hours for Mr. Mills to arrive, only to learn that...
...where all stock transactions are crooked, where each college is just four years of drinking, where each dance is a brawl and each marriage a failure. Is it not possible to export pictures which are more typical of American life? Out here hundreds of proud Americans will continue to explain that OUR COUNTRY IS GOOD but our advertising is BAD. W. SCOTT HOKE Singapore...
...deserts, seals, penguins, wireless communications. The trip over the Pole itself is exciting in spite of a dreary monolog of explanatory comments by Floyd Gibbons, inserted in the U. S. Only silly shot: the opening sequence, with Byrd in a starched white uniform posed at his wheel, to explain why he went South. Epic shots: a school of killer whales lunging up for air; the ice-clad City of New York silhouetted against Ross Barrier; the Stars & Stripes, propelled by a stone from Floyd Bennett's grave, fluttering down from Byrd's plane to the South Pole...