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News Is Like The Tilefish Which Appears In Great Schools Off The Atlantic Coast Some Years And Then Vanishes, No One Knows Whither Or For How Long. Newspapers Might Employ These Periods Searching For The Breeding Grounds Of News, But They Prefer To Fill Up With Stories About Kurdled Kurds Or Calvin Coolidge, Until The Banks Close Or A Hitler Marches, When They Are As Surprised As Their Readers.

My Old Friend Looked At Me With A New Respect. He Was Discovering In Me A Capacity For Hypocrisy That He Had Never Credited Me With Before.

I Used To Be Shy About Ordering A Steak After I Had Eaten A Steak Sandwich, But I Got Used To It.

To The Parisians, And Especially To The Children, All Americans Are Now 'heros Du Cinema.' This Is Particularly Disconcerting To Sensitive War Correspondents, If Any, Aware, As They Are, That These Innocent Thanks Belong To Those American Combat Troops Who Won The Beachhead And Then Made The Breakthrough. There Are Few Such Men In Paris.

There Is A Healthy American Newspaper Tradition Of Not Taking Yourself Seriously It Is The Story You Must Take That Way... And If You Do Take Yourself Seriously, According To This Sound Convention, You Are Supposed To Do Your Best Not To Let Anyone Else Know About It. (like Bed-wetting.)