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...admire Churchill's Britain, Stalin's Russia, the U.S. and its women, folk songs, gangster movies. "The Beaver" has led the cry for a second front in Britain, does not beg when he differs with Crony Winston-something the Prime Minister appreciates. Commented London's Daily Mirror: "Mr. Churchill has brought over to his side again the most persistent critic of the Government...
...cutter and a tea strainer. There was a tricorn glittering with plastic cutlery, grapefruit knives and ice tongs, and a hat of a sponge pierced with iced-tea spoons. The queer fact about these hats was that they were all becoming. Ben says: "The sale is made in the mirror...
...Johnston's bold talk in Britain (TIME, Aug. 30) drew British fire even before he got home. Early last week the London press broke out in a rash of protest. Snapped the irascible Mirror: "Will Mr. Johnston please note that no government ... in this country is going to allow anyone to come along and buy up Great Britain at the back door." Said a letter to the Times: "What progress can be expected if the United States pursues a high tariff policy . . . and sets out to use her huge production power to export without taking payment in goods...
Cracked the Daily Mirror: "Some few mitigations may be allowed in the certainty of relieving depression, discouragement, dismay, accidents, blindness and boredom. Until then, we submissively bow our heads and, as we bow them, crack them into other heads bowed in the opposite direction...
...idea of a sanitary latrine? Did Charles Dickens ever hear a radio? Did Goethe ever handle a camera? . . . Did Charles Lamb ever see Ginger Rogers or use a plastic toothbrush? Did Wordsworth ever cross in the Hudson Tunnel or drive on the Merritt Parkway? . . . Why must we be the mirror to the universe? Where are the standards? The invalid assumptions must fall away, and some common standard for all humanity must be rediscovered...