Chicago Seems A Big City

Forget That New Orleans Is Actually A Little Like The Combat Zone With French Cooking, It Still Happens To Be Part Of The Great State Of Louisiana Where People Play The Political Game The Same Way It's Played In Lebanon. The Place Is One Layer After Another Of Tribes, Factions And At Least A Million Laughs.

In The Light Of What Proust Wrote With So Mild A Stimulus, It Is The World's Loss That He Did Not Have A Heartier Appetite. On A Dozen Gardiner's Island Oysters, A Bowl Of Clam Chowder, A Peck Of Steamers, Some Bay Scallops, Three Sauteed Soft-shelled Crabs, A Few Ears Of Fresh Picked Corn, A Thin Swordfish Steak Of Generous Area, A Pair Of Lobsters, And A Long Island Duck, He Might Have Written A Masterpiece.

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.

Cynicism Is Often The Shamefaced Product Of Inexperience.

Newspapers Write About Other Newspapers With Circumspection, ... About Themselves With Awe, And Only After Mature Reflection.