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...Yorkese, which New York Uni versity phoneticians have discovered to be the least popular type of U. S. speech (TIME, March 11), is the easiest for Dr. Smith to guess. He has identified Bronxites and Brooklynites at the drop of an r, located Manhattanites within a few blocks of their homes. Once he spotted the influence of a French school in a naturalized American woman whose accent sounded normally German to ordinary listeners. Dr. Smith has learned his trade from books and phonograph records, has more difficulty with the pronunciations of his native Baltimore than with New Yorkese...
...Degrelle has been working sub rosa since April 1939, when his Rexists were roundly trounced in the Parliamentary elections. Last week, as Belgium placed Belgian ex-service men on guard over utilities and communications centres, no one seemed to know anything about Rexist Degrelle. But it was a safe guess that the Government had him where he would find it mighty inconvenient to quisle...
...months ago and offered a deal: the whole works for $1, with a king's ransom in debt ($388,427 including interest) completely wiped out, no strings attached. How New England happened to pick him, Bob Greenwood says he still does not know. But townspeople can guess: onetime furniture manufacturer, onetime chairman of the town Public Service Committee, Bob Greenwood was about as popular a businessman as there was in Gardner, and had had no steady job of late...
...Parliament sat again. But he was in no good fix. Great Britain was grousing about the war's inactivity and part of the press was after ministerial scalps, if not that of Mr. Chamberlain himself. The Prime Minister had to do something, and the best guess was that he would shuffle, but not shake up, his Cabinet, probably reduce his nine-man War Cabinet, possibly give Winston Churchill more war powers (TIME, April 8). He did just that...
Each of the municipal Miss Spirituals is promised a part in Indecency. One among them will be chosen Miss Spiritual America, and she will be the picture's star. Last week it was still too early to guess which Miss Spiritual would be the heroine of Indecency, but there were indications that Preacher Jardine favored Miss Spiritual Miami. Said one commentator after looking at her photograph: "Quite a babe...