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Neither the victory nor the recognition went according to schedule. Soon the broadcasting stations of Free China began jubilant descriptions of how the Japanese spring drive was being routed, claimed 50,000 Japanese had been killed. Special Ambassador General Nobuyuki Abe, who long since arrived to recognize the Wang regime in the name of the Son of Heaven, continued to hang around doing nothing. More significantly, in Tokyo no audience with the Emperor was scheduled for a delegation of Chinese who arrived representing Mr. Wang...
Tennessee, 52 (both lifelong Democrats), went on relief, wistfully wished their distant fourth cousin, Abe, was still President...
...Munich? It looked last week as if U. S. opinion was on a day-to-day basis about the war. Lanky (6 ft. 6 in.) Playwright Robert Emmet Sherwood (Reunion in Vienna, Abe Lincoln in Illinois) tuned in on a Finn-Russian war broadcast last Christmas Day, got so excited he wrote a play in January which Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne tried out in March and opened last week in New York City: "There Shall Be No Night" (see p. 52). Columnist Raymond Clapper viewed with alarm...
...created a National Bituminous Coal Commission, which at once tangled itself so thoroughly in politics that Franklin Roosevelt reorganized it out of existence and turned its job over to the Department of the Interior. There for nearly a year Director Howard Adams Gray and his able General Counsel Abe Fortas have been laboriously writing prices and codes, scheduled to become effective this summer...
Raymond Massey's Lincoln--are the two still separable?--strikes us again as an almost uncanny reincarnation of the dead. At least in our imagination, earnest, gauche Abe Lincoln must have talked with the same mild firmness in his voice as earnest, gauche Mr. Massey. But although "Abe Lincoln in Illinois," the movie, is as much Mr. Massey's vehicle as the play, the supporting characters do their full share to make it a success. Ruth Gordon's Ann Rutledge inspires the audience no less than Honest Abe, and Mary Howard's Mrs. Lincoln manages to be appallingly unattractive...