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...Anne O'Hare McCormick expressed the horror of the scene: ". . . The Hitler Youth rising out of the ruins . . . Here they are as one remembers them in 1933 -the same stance and gestures when the band plays, the same air of importance, the same plastic faces, empty and somehow piteous, waiting to be molded into anything the master sculptor decides...
After reducing himself to an object as piteous and work-ridden as an aged charwoman's knee, Toombs wails an old refrain: "Waking up in the morning is the worst mistake that a housekeeper can make. You have the awful feeling that you are in debt to the day . . . Housekeeping [is] certainly the hardest job I . . . ever tackled...
Inside Lights. Subbing for the first-string music critic, Cardus once heard a Russian tenor sing Nekrasov's The Wanderer. Wrote Cardus: "At the passage where we hear the piteous lamentation of the starving peasant, [his] face was as though a light had been turned down inside; at the cry 'Cold! Cold!' the cheeks . . . became sunken; the body contracted as though intensely chilled, the hands clenched, and, surely, the voice itself was pinched ... An eloquent animation, almost sculptural...
...Moral? Next day, Loretta'Young divulged her sources: the executive's shoes story came from a U.S. woman correspondent (who, apparently, doesn't know that coupons aren't required for resoling shoes). The chocolate-bar-and-piteous-child incident was told her by a British waiter, whose little boy had shared a bar with a neighboring girl. Londoners thought that "Do I lick or do I bite?" might be a polite, childish equivalent for "How much can I have?" Loretta's scoop on the fainting factory workers was from a housewife who said...
...four days & nights, the Great White Way echoed to the sound of invasion. Bugles squalled and drums rattled above the piteous honking of stalled traffic. Explosions boomed; sirens howled. Police whistles trilled madly as Legionnaires decoyed harried truck drivers to the curb. One night, hundreds of shirt-sleeved Legionnaires hung out the windows of the Taft and Victoria Hotels, fired barrages of water-filled paper bags across 51st Street at each other, howled with vulgar glee as the missiles fell short and plummeted into the crowd below...