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...Wynn The Perfect Fool. Hope has no eccentric character; but by giving his gags dramatic value he made himself a type-the dumb wise guy, the quaking braggart, the lavish tightwad. But this type somehow dissolves into a far broader and more significant one-thanks to his vibrant averageness, Hope is any healthy, cocky, capering American. He is the guy who livens up the summer hotel, makes things hum at the corset salesmen's convention, keeps a coachful of passengers laughing for an hour when a train is stalled. With his ski-slide nose and matching chin, he looks...
...TIME Magazine, with its miniature light weight overseas issues, reaches almost all of them. When they read the account of your action and when they read about John Robbins Mohler, their faith will be re-established in the Common Man. They will know there is loyalty, patriotism, living and vibrant in these United States. That this is a country worth fighting and dying...
...Vibrant, gimlet-eyed Octavio Vejar Vasquez succeeded leftist Luis Sanchez Ponton as Minister of Education. He is a conservative, close to Mexico's powerful Catholic Church. To him goes the praise, and the blame, for abolishing coeducation in Mexican schools. He also recently ordered all schoolteachers to abandon their political activity...
...Such fear is weakness. Russia is neither going to eat us nor seduce us. That is ... unless our democratic institutions and our free economy become so frail through abuse and failure in practice as to make us soft and vulnerable. The best answer to Communism is a living, vibrant, fearless democracy-economic, social, and political. All we need to do is to stand up and perform according to our professed ideals. Then those ideals will be safe...
...Yatsen. Tiny, spirited, inviolate, Mme. Sun lives in a three-story apartment house in Chungking, and emerges only rarely to make public statements. Last week, when she broke her silence, she voiced again the democratic conscience of China; once more she raised the dormant but still-vibrant national hopes of her late great husband, whose liberal program has been all but lost in the pressures of war under Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek...