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Suppose a reporter from here, assigned to cover TIME, should poke his nose into the composing and press rooms, take a gander around the circulation and advertising departments; should then knock out an article which magnified the mechanical side, said little about your main job-reporting and writing ? We don't believe you'd feel grateful for that kind of coverage, thankful that you had been treated fairly...
...showy lot, but none matches the official simplicity of Jacksonian Mr. Secretary Hull. At Montevideo for his first major Latin American conference, an hour after the boat docked, with hat in hand he was trudging about the town, informally calling on the delegates, meticulously mispronouncing their names. He would knock on the door, say "I'm Hull of the U. S." and begin chatting. Astounded, then charmed by this informality, delegates from the banana republics laid aside their silk hats and silk manners, forgot their jealousy and hatred for the Colossus of the North...
...would knock and greet the unsuspecting students with an extended money pan and a sentimental story. But they didn't get far, for after they had collected a sizeable amount and were about to make their escape, the due met a squad of Yard police who immediately escorted them out of the Yard...
...KNOCK, MURDERER, KNOCK!-Harriet Rutland-Harrison-Hilton ($2). Plenty baffled are Local Inspector Palk and a mysterious amateur sleuth when three guests in an English hydropathic hotel have their heads skewered with a steel knitting needle. Neurotic, crossgrained, gossipy characters are the tale's specialty...
...than to any U. S. humor. In some of them Eliot goes kittenish in a big way, recalling that suspect, sissified element in Lear and Carroll which sets U. S. teeth on edge. Yet latent in other of Possum's poems is enough ferocious fancy and parody to knock the spots off most cat books and most child verses...