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Smith's warmest tribute is to his friend Fred Allen. Quotations from the comedian's letters prove what his friends have always known: that they are even luckier than his radio audiences. Samples...
...neighborliness, forest fires, fishing, customs, communications. But she has no scorn for city dwellers: "In spite of the literary convention of bursting barns, overflowing larders, and cellars crammed with luscious preserves and delicious smoked hams, in spite of the accepted version of the countryman as being clad in the warmest and best of wools . . . the country standard of living is very much lower than the city standard...
...Chinese was turning bitter last week. When Britain and the U.S. said they would give up extraterritorial rights in China (TIME, Oct. 19), democratic hopes leaped up throughout the world. The Chinese, who had just given Wendell Willkie one of the warmest receptions in Oriental history, cheered themselves hoarse...
...Warmest defenders of The Moon are Novelist Pearl Buck, Drama Critic Brooks Atkinson, Dorothy Thompson, Book Reviewer Lewis Gannett. Gannett called the "totalitarian crusade" against the story "a depressing example of wartime hysteria." Said Dorothy Thompson: "I know dozens of German officers who were thoroughly mature when last I enjoyed friendly relations with them, and they were just like [Colonel Lanser].... The enormous power in Mr. Steinbeck's drama is that it is not an attack on Nazis. It is an attack on Naziism." Meanwhile The Moon is Down is doing quite nicely. As a novel, it has sold...
Pungent facts and estimates documented Allen Raymond's sympathetic diagnosis of an ailing people he describes as "one of the kindest, warmest-hearted and most considerate" he ever encountered...