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Escape to Adventure, by Fitzroy Mac lean. A World War II brigadier and Tory M.P. describes his prewar prowling in Russia, his commando adventures in the North African desert and his guerrilla life with Tito in one of the best personal-adventure books in a long while (TIME...
...Moffle, the heavy hitting holdover from last year's nine, should be the mainstay of the gardeners. Ed Foynes, Gordon Ellis, Dick Kobusch, are all veterans and Mac Morrison, Bernie Akillian, and Ralph Robinson are promising sophomores. Practically speaking, McInnes will probably have less trouble with the outer pastures than any other part of the field...
...friendly government in power in Teheran. Cagey operator though he is, Essex has been careless enough to select as his assistant a man he has never seen before, Geologist Ivre MacGregor, an uncommunicative Scot who grew up in Iran. It is a choice that plagues and defeats him. Mac not only sympathizes with the revolution and gives the Russians a bill of health; he also cops sophisticated Kathy Clive from under the very nose of Essex, who had her all earmarked for himself. At the end, Mac's hope for civil war in Iran is somewhat dashed...
Will the U.S. help? The British fervently hope so. A recent American visitor observed to MacDonald that his job was like that of the player backing up the line on an American football team. The other "Mac" quickly added: "In our English game, the only football I know, it takes two to back up the line...
Privately, Hearstlings thought they knew why the News was gaining on them. In the Herald-American, Chicagoans were still getting the Hearstian formula of sex, sensation, antivivisection and Mac-Arthur-for-President. Herald-American staffers were sure that they could do better by dropping the canned crusades in favor of more local news. That was just what Knight's News was giving Chicago: fresh, warmhearted, local-angled stories, sometimes crusading, almost always lively. With the playing down of its foreign coverage and the jazzing up of its typography, the paper had lost some of its prestige among old News...