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...contrast with this what have we now? Examine the current January issues of Reader's Digest, TIME, New York Herald Tribune-Paris Edition, The Christian Century, publications which we believe are effective creators of public opinion at home and abroad. Taken together, do they or do they not leave the impression that American journalism-with one or two notable exceptions-has entered a dangerous campaign of hatred...
Winnie Winkle the Breadwinner got on a bus one day last month, and for eight days readers of the Chicago Tribune and 140 other newspapers followed Cartoonist Martin Michael Branner's heroine through a series of depressing experiences. She was annoyed by a traveling salesman, bored by a Shakespearean ham, sprawled over by a yokel couple. Many a reader guessed that Cartoonist Branner had gone somewhere on a bus and hadn't liked it much...
From a strictly literary point of view the book is consistently fine. Although much of the material is of a rather technical nature, the reader's interest never lags. Particularly effective is the chapter dealing with the heroic campaign of the English in Belgium. Nowhere does the futility of war seem more apparent than in this account of the British loss of 100,000 lives for the sake of retaining a few square miles of disease-infested swampland...
...there anyone in TIME'S reader-audience who can solve this dilemma...
...FORMER READER Boston, Mass...