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Show A Reporter's Bookmarks: W. L. White's "Queens Die Proud-ly" Proud-ly" (Harcourt-Brace) contain, this beautiful wordage: "And the plane It isn't something that belongs to the Government with a number; It's Old 99, the beautiful NEW Flying Fortress that belongs to you. It's more than your home it's, well, a kind of a sweetheart. All of you picked her up off the assembly line at the Boeing plant where she was born a beautiful, smooth, shining, naked thing. Then all of you took her up over the clouds and wrapped that beautiful blue star-spangled gown of the skies around her, which is the way every Fortress ought to be dressed, because they're the Queens of the high skies." n. Ostein's "The Rise and Fall of the House of Ullstein" (Simon-Schuster) (Simon-Schuster) is a tragic story of the slow death of Germany's greatest publishers via the swastika poison . . . The history of its downfall has an uncanny way of paralleling some of the events already taking place here . . . The author reports that he told conservative German dallies to offer stiffer resistance to the rising tide of Naziism. But they, and even chiefs of his own paper, told him not to be so pessimistic about the danger within . . . They feared that such stories would lose subscribersso sub-scribersso they did nothing, and now they have nothing. From "Exchange Ship," by Max . Hill of the Associated Press (Far-rar-Rinehart) : "Clean people? The j Japanese bath provides what probably prob-ably is the dirtiest way of getting clean in the world. Scores of men, women and children bathe in the same water, which is hot but surely i not enough to kill germs . . . Each j wing (of my prison) had a row of five Japanese-type baths, one of ' them usually out of order. That ! meant the 180 prisoners had four j tubs, and the water wasn't emptied j until the last man passed through j the line. The native prisoners were first but there was only one place ! for the foreigners last." II. Allen Smith's book, "Life in a Putty Knife Factory," contains considerable con-siderable amusement, including: "A ! man who becomes the writer of a column is much worse off. His brain achieves such a state that no respectable re-spectable gumma would ever attach itself to it. He becomes a straightforward straight-forward paranoiac. He suffers first from headache, tinnitus, palpitation, digestive disturbances, and incapacity incapaci-ty for mental exertion. After that come intense egotism, selfishness, conceit, overbearing pride, violent temper, and moroseness. How do I know this? I was a columnist. My own favorite Is W. W. Around newspaper offices, where it is fashionable fash-ionable to scoff, he gets very little outspoken applause. Your omnis-scient, omnis-scient, swaggering newspaper man greets his name with a sneer. I never did. I wouldn't sneer even i though it made me appear to be sharp as a tack." "Time of Peace," an exciting tale by Ben Ames Williams (Houghton-Mifflin), (Houghton-Mifflin), contains this gem: "So now you've seen where your ancestors lived," Mark told his son as they , came Into familiar surroundings. i "Don't ever forget that you're more than a New Englander. Out of your eight great-great-grandparents, two went from Massachusetts to Ohio, two went from Georgia to Mississippi, Missis-sippi, one lived in California, one in , Oregon, one In Minnesota, and one i -your mother's great-great-grand- I mother-came from Germany ... I Two of your great-grandparents i carne from Wales. Your grandpar- I ents came from Ohio, Michigan and 1 Minnesota. You've got all the blood " strains In you, Tony. You're not a Westerner, nor a Southerner. You're an American." Secretary Harold Iekes' "The Autography Au-tography of a Curmudgeon" (Reynal & Hitchcock) offers the fol- Evpnf-1?' uhapter caUed BkMed fVZ "-to-ear rumor, about pubLc man are almost without ex- , r - ..t.tcijr Damea that most ou loud if they should be said of a private ctuer. The private citizen '"r" t0 courts-protection courts-protection under the law. So too lifrT yKu' thery. has the put ic man, but the more public he is should he prove that he didn't actu-a actu-a y commit the crime, the pubEty iorld eWU,d ECt WOuld 'v the nrdc:-t?t ; puDiic life provided that it is uf. ficiently unbelievable." j Rus'a'by'wS rR?d Tflp to P-cottisp1 GraeGbrnaeerb(L1 exciting bonk- .V ' Graebner'i Russia X SlJf D? ClViUan ' or own 8 car "1 r "n them; con ? ealh D i tor more wa X bet-n blanket, cent of aU fY ' ?lnety-five Mon there 2 C0P-civiUan C0P-civiUan waste rau.,8nnUal |