The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1952-03-21
1t Takes
All Kinds
By DAVE WEST

The mystery that surrounds pro-
fessonal wise men has grown thick
er 1--WE choose our adjective care
fully since the primary in New
Hampshire last week. None of the
savants syndicated in the press
it necessary to say the simple fact
services nor their oracular broth
ers of the air waves have found
simply-but isn't it possible that
the results up there in the showed
in polling places might mean,
merely, that more people preferred
Eisenhower to Taft and Kefauver
to Truman in New Hampshire?
There was an irony last Sunday
in the Strange AS 1t Seems" de-
partment Elsie Xix has appearing
in so many newspapers. A few
weeks after his tragic death, the
feature announced that John
Moore of Colington "is the last
surviving eyewitness" of the
Wright brothers epochmaking
first flight.
Anybody that gets dragged into
a northumberland session with
Senator Joe Mccarthy is bound to
command lot of sympathy, no
matter who or what he is. AS
Newbold Morris courage
straight talk to (and at) the fear
less headline hunter has been re-
ported in the press, Mr.. Morris has
been made to look very attractive
indeed. Unlike the slapdash smears
we are accustomed to get from the
Senator, Morris target
piercing "hard ones" were care
fully labelled for Senator McCar-
thy and satellite snipers, Senators
Nixon and Mundt. Mr.. Morris was
careful also to note the members
Of the committee whom he did
not consider governmental liabili-
ties and threats to an honest peo-
Plies government. In the latter
it was pleasant to see the
name of Sen. Clyde Hoey. The
North Carolina statesman could
have few compliments to his char
acter as meaningful as having pub
lie attention called to the vast
number of ways in which he differs
from the man who has succeeded
in making the testimony of con-
fessed traitors carry as much
weight in the minds of many as
the sworn statements of Ameri-
cans of previously unquestioned
If anyone has been spared find
ing out for himself, we can report
that Orson Welles hasn't grown
up. He's still the same barrel
toned, over acting ham that he
was when the less uncouth Tor, the
perfectly couth y greeted him as a
new Messiah for "the theatuh"
some fifteen or so years ago. We
were caught with the radio on and
our feet soaking in a tub of hot
water one night last week when a
program called "The Black Mu-
scum" began to flood the room
with it's Stiffness AS the pro-
gram progressed unchecked, the
pain gradually left our feet and
travelled upward to the pit of our
That's how we know the
is still the same what
ever-it-is that he was: our abdom-
NAL sensations were exactly the
same as they were when we wit
messed a Welles-starring, Welles-
directed film based Zone uses the
word with an insane snicker) on
the novel "Jane Eyre"
We know it's a COMPOUNDED pie
bian taste that makes US prefer
acting aimed at achieving credi-
Oility to super-acting, stunning
over the footlights. We are not
equipped to perceive and appre-
ciate genius; our taste is repre-
hensible :. But isn't it reasonable
to expect seventeen-year-old boy
wonder to grow up sometime?
Still, if our reaction hasn't changed
over the years ? Maybe the
artistes are quite right: amt
nothin' what is real arty at a vul-
gar lug like us is a-gonna be able
to latch onto the beyewty of
Well-l, the guy makes US reich; so
we see we got to walk out or flip
over the dial when Orson's art
comes flouncin' out on the stage
or screen or comes roarin' over the