I do not propose to add anything to what has already been written concerning the loss of the "Lady Vain."

About two-thirds of the face of Marx is beard, a vast solemn wooly uneventful beard that must have made all normal exercise impossible. It is not the sort of beard that happens to a man, it is a beard cultivated, cherished, and thrust patriarchally upon the world.

Welles and I differed, however, in our interpretation of the results of the Munich Conference, he being optimistic, I skeptical. In a radio address on October 3, several days after the conference, in which he described the steps taken by the United States Government just prior to Munich, he said that today, perhaps more than at any time during the past two decades, there was presented the opportunity for the establishment by the nations of the world of a new world order based upon justice and upon law. It seemed to me that the colors in the picture were much darker.

You are trying to do a more difficult thing than record folk songs; you are trying to record life.

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.

Arson, after all, is an artificial crime...A large number of houses deserve to be burnt.

A time will come when men will sit with history before them or with some old newspaper before them and ask incredulously,"Was there ever such a world?"