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...Reader Hay wood (TIME, July 7) stand corrected...
...Dear German reader: I am writing you because I want peace. . . . Can you defeat us in a war? It would have to be a short war, a lightning war, as even your experts admit. It is said that you will bomb London from the air. All right, so what? . . . I admit that you could kill about 300,000 civilians. Certainly, if you think that over, you will realize that that will make you lose the war. Germany's name will stink to high heaven from north pole to south pole and it would draw the Americans into...
...attentive reader of the Post 150 years ago could readily have guessed that all was not well in France. Convulsions, havock, intrigue, were leading up to one of the biggest events that a newspaper ever covered: the fall of the Bastille and the beginning of the French Revolution. Last week, while the 150th Bastille Day was being exuberantly celebrated in Paris, the Daily Telegraph & Morning Post reprinted its admirably terse, vigorous, 150-year-old eyewitness report of the original event...
...many a sentimental reader, the books of Novelist Harold Bell Wright (The winning of Barbara Worth, The calling of Dan Matthews) made many a dream seem to get up and walk. Last week the aged author's solemn son Gilbert went his father one better: he made real people talk like waterfalls, braying donkeys, barking dogs, slamming doors, locomotive whistles. The appropriate place: Hollywood...
...Forest, or a Gestapo going-over ("Mr. Emmanuel was not a very satisfactory subject, for he fainted almost at once, and twice again during the proceedings. But on each occasion a jug of cold water revived him, and they got to work again"), Novelist Golding works for the reader's sympathy with practiced skill. He has that sympathy in full measure long before his battered but indomitable hero gets safely home again...