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Copied widely, Kiplinger's letters and their imitators have set into a mold that combines forecast of trends with bite-size gobbets of news chopped to fit the busy businessman's crowded schedule. "Kiplinger does for the executive," says Bernard Gallagher, "what the Reader's Digest does for the peasant." Much newsletter forecasting is done in the vague language of fortunetellers, and no newsletter turns out the double-edged style, the wise guess that can be read both ways, more assiduously than Kiplinger's Washington Letter...
...portfolio has rendered Retired Presidential Adviser Wallich anything but mute. He regularly writes editorials on economics for the Washington Post, has articles in three current highbrow magazines: Harper's, the American Scholar, and the Yale Review. In all three, Economist Wallich hopefully beams his message at a particular reader-President John F. Kennedy. Items...
...number of college newspapers, trying to report events which the national press has chosen to ignore or suppress. When Northern newspapers and weekly news magazines do get around to commenting on lynchings or riots such as those in Monroe, North Carolina, their information is so scanty that the average reader gets only a fuzzy and incomplete picture. Although the wire services generally send writers and photographers to survey the scene, the stories seldom find their way to the pages of newspapers outside the immediate area...
Aten's tale, as ghost-written by professional author Arthur Orrmont, carries the reader through the early, swashbuckling advances of the White cossacks and the supporting British fighter squadron with which Aten flew. His book catches the enthusiasm which swept across the anti-Communist armies and which made the toast "Christmas in Moscow" a Cossack watchword. And finally, the dream shattered and the Communist counter-offensive moving forward irrevocably, Aten's narrative makes up the ghastly retreat to the Black Sea and the eventual evacuation of Allied forces from under the guns of the Bolshevik advance guard...
...spend any amount of time with her while the Cossacks were at the height of their successes; later, during the nightmarish retreat, the two lovers meet with their own special tragedy. The parallel between the personal and over-all themes would be entirely plausible, if left to the reader to discover, for it is natural enough that in the chaotic sickness of a starving people's retreat would be many individual calamities. But Aten and his ghostwriter cannot leave well enough alone- throughout the middle part of the book appear such signposts as "It was as if, with Nina...