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...will be tough, for many reasons. In some quarters, however, there is a tendency to rate the Lions heavy favorites, on the basis of their fine showing against a good team, as contrasted to the Crimson's sometimes inept performance against a lesser opponent. But here is some random speculation as to what the men who make their living at this sort of thing will take into consideration before making their pick. For instance...
...editorial accompanies the Post's publication of Senator Joseph C. McCarthy's new book, McCarthyism. Loud and random red chasing ostensibly won McCarthy a Wisconsin primary, and obviously, Mr. Fox thinks this strategy can sell newspapers for the financially shaky Post. Fortunately, both Mayor Hynes and Milton E. Lord, director of the library, have resisted the Post's blasting. The elimination of books, and for that matter newspapers as well, should occur in one way only--by people refusing to read them of their own accord...
...England, the press was warmly hospitable to Chaplin. The Observer said: "Should American authorities really intend to revoke his permit . . . because of random imputations and not on the basis of judicial verdict, they would be acting . . . rather shabbily and with little sense of logic ... If the great comedian wishes to stay here in the country whose citizenship he has so pertinaciously retained, he will be less harassed and very welcome...
Unfortunately, .says Professor Thomas Pyles of the University of Florida, the average educated American has mastered the rules of grammar, and his speech is "frequently dry, dull, tedious, overprecise . . ." In a new book called Words and Ways of American English (Random House; $3.50), Pyles argues that American speech is much too prissy. It long ago shunned the rough & tumble language of the farm, and it also discarded the "careless elegance" of the 18th century drawing room. Instead it adopted "the tortured precision prescribed by the grammarians who served as arbiters of language for the 'new men' created...
...MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN (177 pp.)-Eugene O'Neill-Random House...