Commendations Commended: Mr. Michael Howard, an urbane comedian in Here's
Howard. Mr. Howard has a neat, unfrenzied touch. Commended also: The Plain Man's Guide To Music, in which symphonies and orchestras are painlessly dissected, without any class-room atmo- sphere. Commended also, if it may be done without impertinence, Mr. Winston Churchill at the Alamein dinner. What a power in the word spoken at the microphone, and disseminated through the air! How much more effective was Mr. Churchill's demand for the retention of conscription than it would have been in cold print! (Adolf Hitler, who knew something about these things, was very strong on the point of the word versus print.) And how few politicians know how to use the microphone! When I think of the coming election and of the unsuitable platform harangues that the microphone will have to endure, I tremble and grow pale.
LIONEL HALE.
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