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...nominate-no one. I am not jesting. . . . Our politicians from the President on down have demonstrated their complete inability to cope with present-day problems. Men of science are still putting their heads together to develop weapons of destruction instead of methods of construction. And our labor leaders . . . are heading hell-bent for election in their common enterprise to kill the goose that laid the golden...
Correspondents leaped to fill in the comparison between the 1933 Hitler threat-which George Messersmith had recognized at first glance-and the present-day threat of Communism. There was no mistaking what George Messersmith meant. Like many another diplomat in Latin America, he knew that the principal cell of Communist infiltration in Latin America in the late '30s and early '40s was in Mexico, under the skilled hand of the late Constantine Oumansky. Like others, he now believes that the cell has shifted to South America, where Communists are working and organizing like beavers (see LATIN AMERICA...
...customers are mainly Cambridge folk, but Sumner feels that the presence of college students with their quick reactions and greater responsiveness, helps put over his shows with the rest of the audience. Sumner, who believes that the present-day Harvard student is a great deal more serious than his predecessors, states that "the elimination of the tutoring schools around the Square a decade ago really changed the College man. You fellows have to work to stay around here...
...final comment on the present-day college-girl attitude came from a young woman to whom the military shot-in-the-arm, the monthly medical inspection, and dental check were practically habit. Revealing that she was perhaps too revealing during the freshman physical examination, she said, "That sheet was a little unwieldly, and gosh, I had the feeling I was corrupting those kids...
Author White's colony of Lilliputians is located on a tiny lake-island in a vast English estate-among the now-ruined "Vistas, Obelisks, Pyramids . . . Rotundas, and Palladian Bridges" through which Pope, Dr. Johnson, Boswell and Garrick once roamed. The present-day heiress to the tumbledown estate is ten-year-old Maria, "one of those tough and friendly people who do things first and think about them afterward." The plot of Mistress Mas ham's Repose revolves around the efforts of Maria's fiendish guardians to abduct the Lilliputians and sell them to Hollywood...