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...have lost their piano player. Since Liberation, they had turned to a squad of American G.I.s for music and entertainment. But Yanks in France had dwindled to fewer than 30,000 ; now the American Forces Network -the best in U.S. radio - was packing its tubes and preparing to pull the plug. To their French fans, it was a crisis of the first order...
...would keep our world leadership. We must steady ourselves in these emotional sweeps and keep our heads or the ship of democracy will wallow in this sea of confusion, spring a leak and disintegrate. . . . The whole world is watching us, amazed at the exhibition of a giant who cannot pull himself together even to take care of his own needs...
...CRITICS: "There is a constant pull exerted . . . to write a bad review of a play. Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasms. Their bons mots, which are quoted and remembered, are always capsule damnations, cutting and sour. Their reputations, and I suppose their pay, depend, then, upon disliking plays . . . In no other art is there anything vaguely resembling this. . . . [Critics] become Shakespeare's peer. "It was better in France. There the critics were perceptive and corrupt. The managers paid them off and bought good reviews and the plays were left to the honest...
...CRITICS: "There is a constant pull exerted . . . to write a bad review of a play. Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasms. Their bons mots, which are quoted and remembered, are always capsule damnations, cutting and sour. Their reputations, and I suppose their pay, depend, then, upon disliking plays . . . In no other art is there anything vaguely resembling this. . . . [Critics] become Shakespeare's peer. "It was better in France. There the critics were perceptive and corrupt. The managers paid them off and bought good reviews and the plays were left to the honest...
...tentative plan calls for either a through train daily to various coast cities, e.g., Monday to Los Angeles, Tuesday to San Francisco, or through cars attached to regular trains. In either case, the through train, or the cars, will pull into one Chicago terminal, then be shunted to a western road by way of Chicago's complicated maze of belt lines and yards. Fastest time for the cross-country trip will be cut from 67 hours to 59 hours...