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...magazine boasts short selections from the personal writings of distinguished men: Thornton Wilder, Mark Twain and William Dean Howells, Ford Madox Ford. These pieces are all interesting, but they have all been published before and were presumably included primarily to fill out the table of contents, and perhaps to help set the tone of the publication...
Historian Blanch (The Wilder Shores of Love) finds her subject perhaps too fascinating for an orderly, steady-pulsed narrative, and now and then the reader is vexed by her somewhat florid digressions. But the period is little known and the players absorbing. Mme. de Stael's remark is quoted: "In Russia, if they do not attain their objective, they always go past it." The author can be forgiven if she does both...
...Apartment. Producer-Director Billy Wilder's comedy about the rise of an organizational rogue (Jack Lemmon) who lends his apartment to his trysting bosses is both deftly funny and occasionally-ironically-solemn...
...economy. Higher prices are mostly created by real estate speculators who hold on to great tracts of choice land in the hope that future demand will bring even higher profits. The speculators may be in for a shock. Historically, land prices go up and down in bigger and wilder swings than any other prices in the economy. They are "now overdue for a fall," says HOUSE & HOME. "Suburban land will sell for much less before it sells for much more." Farm land prices outside the suburbs have already turned downward...
...Apartment. Producer-Director Billy Wilder happily combines a cynical commentary on grey-flannel suitors with a superb comedy of men's-room humors and watercooler politics...