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...paper said that reader response is running heavily in favor of the move ("Thank you for a helpful change of policy. We should stem this dirty deluge"). But some of the critical mail seemed more to the point. Sample: "This new policy is something I would have expected from a country weekly but not from one of the country's 10 best newspapers...
...ATLAS: a sort of highbrow Reader's Digest with reprints, excerpts and translations from the foreign press, launched last March by Eleanor Davidson Worley, stepdaughter of the late publisher of Illinois and California newspapers, Ira C. Copley, with ABC Newsman Quincy Howe as co-editor...
Coming to a Halt. One interested reader was the Rev. William O. Richards, rector of St. Barnabas Episcopal Church of Glenwood Springs. Reproachfully, he wrote Drake: Why had his permission not been asked to use St. Paul's? Drake replied that he thought it had. Up turned Rector Richards with a letter from the Bishop of Colorado, the Rt. Rev. Joseph S. Minnis: the Episcopalians were taking over again. "I was advised that nondenominational services were being held in the church, and that it was being referred to as a community church," said the bishop. "This I could...
...established expatriate; it lacks the edge that defiance and fear give to a work whose author risks arrest. Cripple Mah, Lee's addlepated hero, is protected by his Schweikian stupidity from the dangers of the new people's democratic dictatorship. There is no sense of immediacy; the reader feels Mah could equally well be blundering through the tumultuous 13th century China described in the picaresque classic, Flower Shadows Behind the Curtain...
Bert's Pants. Caldwell's special quality is a wonderful ease; he evokes humor or horror without bravura or its opposite, the smug underplaying that leaves the reader, at the end of so many short stories, disappointedly clutching a glazed lump of irony in the form of a souvenir ashtray. Caldwell gives away no pottery. In a leisurely way, yet wasting no time with scene-setting, he lays out his dialogue and his few spare sentences of narration. The characters take shape quickly as the story forms. At the end, amazingly often, what the reader takes away...