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...anonymous death... just to satisfy some old-maid policy on a magazine. While I'm on this subject, I should also like to add that...whoever writes your Cinema and Books sections often comes up with a masterpiece ...Why don't you let these present-day Wolfes and Menckens get a byline?...Those geniuses should both be given at least a small break...
...Efficient government"--desire of all good citizens, fervent promise of all politicians-suggests the factory where the efficiency of men and machines is tested by their qualifications for the goal of maximum output. Most functions of present-day government can be subjected to this test, but some of the oldest and most important functions of government cannot be. Governments not only produce goods, e.g., Navy yard warships, and services, e.g., weather forecasts; they also produce a reflection of the national will, the national sense of justice and policy...
...gloomily that "this is all such 19th century stuff," found a pair of seconds, one of them his onetime commanding officer in the Free French Air Force. Actually, duels (with pistols), though often banned in France's gallant and tempestuous history, are by no means uncommon even in present-day France, particularly with newspaper editors, theater critics and existentialist painters. But the Foreign Minister's involvement threatened a government scandal...
...Kiss from Lafayette. Whitman Specialist Allen serves a full-course literary meal, and he takes his time about it, but anyone who sits patiently at his table will leave it fat with facts. Walt Whitman was born in West Hills, near present-day Huntington, Long Island, in 1819, but was taken to Brooklyn at the age of three. His father was a good carpenter but a poor provider, who spouted Tom Paine to his eight children. Walt had a skimpy schooling, and the most dramatic event he later recalled from his childhood was the day Lafayette, on a triumphal visit...
...Expanding and improving the internal transportation systems of present-day underdeveloped countries represents a great opportunity for the American aviation industry to be of service. Its capital and know-how in partnership with local investors . . . can measurably strengthen the countries we wish to be our friends. With the growth of adequate transportation will come agricultural improvement and industrial development. Better education, health services, more advantages for workers will follow...