A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK
DILIGENT and well-intentioned authors so often get much less than their,due that I am glad to be able to indicate how a gentleman from Dayton, Ohio, regards a recent article by Professor Brogan : " There may be many ' common jests ' directed, as barbs, in the direction of the Honorable Senator, Robert A. Taft, from the great State of Ohio, whose intelligence, commonsense, and ethical standards shine out in glowing radiance offering clear and revealing contrast to the collective mental dullness, pedantry and irrepressible prejudice clearly evident in your references to a gentleman and a scholar capable of facing the enemy with dignity and severity because his mental capacities have fortified him against the illogical thinking that emanates from sanctums infested with intellectual prostitutes, journa- listic pimps, Fabians, Rhodes Scholars, and Socialist zealots which are not uncommon in England—especially in London.
" I have but one regret for having met you Mr. Brogan. The auspices should have been other than the unholy ' smear sheet' which published your unacceptable intrusion."
I am tempted to write of the unholy smear-sheet, " that's us," but being ineradicably grammatical I am bound to say " that's we "—though I confess I don't like the look of it. * * * *
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