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Paul Mallon (16 Hearst papers and others) consistently reflects the Hearst view. He is "currently engaged by postwar planning at home and abroad. He thinks it stinks. He envisions nothing better than a world of roaring red Communism overseas. . . . He has a remarkable native instinct for fearing that he and his fellows are being jobbed. . . . His protests [are] bolstered by anecdote, rumor and unqualified statements based on what some people think might be going...
People's Voice. Grace Moore always had the born trouper's instinct for the big way. At her Metropolitan debut the wings were crowded with newsreel cameramen, and Beatrice Lillie and Miriam Hopkins threw violets from the boxes. When a short time afterward, Hollywood beckoned, Grace hired a Pullman, garnished with orchids and banana trees, and went in state. She may not have become the world's greatest soprano, but nobody could accuse her of not acting the part...
...American soldier, England is a stopping place on the long road home through Fortress Europe. The drugstore cowboy has a native instinct for the busiest corner. When he can he makes for London. There he and his buddies fill the subways, the busses, the cabs, the theaters, the pubs and hotel bars. In astonishing numbers they go to gawk through the iron fence at Buckingham Palace in the hope of seeing the King. Says a cockney, also gawking: "He's a decent bloke, you know. Works hard. I wouldn't have his job." Says G.I. Joe: "Yeah...
...that disqualifies George Santayana as the philosopher and teacher of the Americas and Spain is his inability to make the U.S. take him in earnest. The fault is less his own than it is another illustration of the unerring U.S. instinct for overlooking...
...Nazi regime's favor are iron control of the population, the instinct for survival, a strong and yet unbroken Army, the rich loot plundered from Europe since 1939. Yet much of that loot has been expended on war, the Army is now in retreat, the home controls cannot survive a complete military disaster...