12 SEPTEMBER 1952, Page 4

What the difference is between an epigram and a wise-crack

I should not care to determine, or in which of the two, if there be any difference, Governor Adlai Stevenson so largely abounds. Of the selection I have seen on the whole I like this best: " After all, there was a man named Hitler, and it looked for a while as if he were invincible. Yet we despised and decadent peoples are still talking—and he hasn't made a