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...other hand, Dr. George Gallup's pollsters by last week had piled up evidence in State after State of a steady decline in the Democratic fortunes, a decline so profound as to give every prospect of a clear Republican victory in November. The shift toward the G. O. P. was now so marked that nothing short of a Rooseveltian miracle, it appeared to poll-parrots, could save the election for the Democrats...
During all this time the other two boys had been left to shift for themselves. When they were old enough to grasp what was happening their training began. In a short time their performances not only equaled, but in one case even surpassed, those of their more tutored brothers...
...Conrad Richter-Knopf ($2.50). The first 70 pages of The Trees, which tell of the Luckett family alone in the tremendous forest of the Northwest Territory, build a savage, hypnotic atmosphere of a nation's prenatal silence. Once the Lucketts begin meeting people, and once life begins its shift from the hunter's to the farmer's economy, the story relaxes towards more ordinary folk-stuff. But Conrad Richter can teach most U. S. folk-writers a trick or two in the right use of archaic language, and his pioneers, unlike most in fiction, never preen themselves...
...aside from this shift in emphasis, the movie is all that the author himself could want. More restrained in its criticisms and its language, it is nevertheless frank, sordid, and moving. The characters are sharply etched, the dialogue largely Steinbeck and not Zanttek. "The Grapes of Wrath's is the proof of what has long been suspect: Hollywood is capable of escaping from escapism...
...Shift? "A surprising number" of London Daily Express readers last week returned at their own expense answers to a questionnaire intended to sound British war sentiment. As to the war's outcome, 69.4% "feel confident of an Allied victory"; 27.6% do not; and 1.5% expect a stalemate. Of those who replied, 49.5% called "insecurity for the future" their "greatest wartime discomfort," but 46% are "determined to win at all costs"; 38.7% voted themselves "bewildered...