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Bung-nosed A. P. ("Peck") Herbert, 60, novelist, wit, and Independent M.P. for Oxford, took to the pages of London's Sunday Graphic to give a vigorous pat on the back to Britain's Chief Representative to the U.N. Sir Gladwyn Jebb, with a sideswipe at one of Sir Gladwyn's chief adversaries, the U.S.S.R.'s Jacob Malik...
...House Haunted. The effects of economy, graphic in general, were even more discouraging in detail. The details were in reports of exercises curtailed, of research and weapon development squeezed down, procurement postponed and pared. New weapons, hopefully discussed, were still mostly only on drawing boards or in the head of Vannevar Bush...
Last month the Chicago Tribune evicted The Gumps from their original home. To replace them, Publisher Bertie McCormick, who mortally hates and fears the British, last week was running a comic strip from London's Sunday Graphic. The newcomer: Artist William Timym's Caesar, the wordless adventures of a dog of dubious paternity...
Seedling Hints. In his graphic Mexican War battle scenes, the best in the book, Biographer Lewis has won a major technical victory by firmly focusing on Grant while adequately conveying the sound & fury of massed fighting men around him. Throughout his life, Grant detested bloodshed ("I never went into a battle willingly or with enthusiasm"), refused even to hunt animals. "I had a horror of the Mexican War," he once wrote, "only I had not moral courage enough to resign." From the campaigns fought by Mexican War Generals Winfield Scott and Zachary Taylor (Grant's military idol), observant Grant...
...have even the grace of good writing. Mr. Wilson's blurb writers say that it is satirical and compare it with his "Hecate County" stories and the late George Orwell's "1984." It is lacking in the originality and horrifying interest of the latter; it doesn't have the graphic eroticism of the former. There is an uneasy amount of symbolism (to put across in dialogue), and the symbols and extended metaphors are brought up and then dismissed to make way for others. (This, by the way, is not Wilson's first published play; a collection of his earlier plays...