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...named Pianist Liberace, famous for the former, and Evangelist Billy Graham, who frequently sports the latter, to its annual list of America's best-dressed men. Heading the list of winners in 15 highly redundant categories was Spiro Agnew, who bumped his boss Richard Nixon as best-dressed statesman. Tailors and designers admired his "sincerity" in dress. Other winners included Barry Goldwater, Ed Sullivan, and Britain's Prince Charles. Graham, leader in the exclusive "evangelist" category, admitted: "Nearly all the clothes I wear are given to me. I don't think I've bought a suit...
...Within. In "the mirror surface where creation rests," no man sees his true reflection. Only when the mirror is distorted as in a fun fair can a man laugh in the face of his own tragic mask. Recently, in the pages of London's New Statesman, Graham Greene (pseudonymously, of course) entered a competition for the best parody of Graham Greene's style. He did not win, though his entry was printed.* In Travels with My Aunt, he has masterfully parodied himself again, body and bones, style and structure. This time he should win a prize...
...SPEECH. A sad study-seen from within the bosom of a lifetime New Statesman contributor-of the hatred and contempt a professional leftist holds for the "workers" she would nudge to the barricades...
...murder. On authority from forensic medicine, she makes the point that men on the point of suicide do not lose control of their bowels. Such loss of control is a symptom of the last stages of suffocation. As the author visualizes it, the struggle between the 200-lb. Czech statesman and his assailants began in the bedroom and progressed to the bathroom. There they finally managed to hold him down in the tub and stifle him with pillows. When he was unconscious or nearly so, he was shoved out the nearest window, feet first...
British press and politicians had reacted immediately, and emotionally, to the massacre. The editor of the liberal, antiwar New Statesman wrote that "responsibility for the Pinkville massacre -and for how many others?-lies squarely with the American nation as a whole." By contrast, The Economist rationalized that whenever a country goes to war, "it is statistically almost inevitable that some of its men will do something atrocious...