Word: adds
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Your statement [TIME, Sept. 23] that Mr. G. E. R. Gedye "lost his job with the London Telegraph for criticizing Neville Chamberlain in his book, Fallen Bastions," would, I think, be less open to misconstruction if you could add as a footnote the following quotation from a letter from Mr. Arthur E. Watson, managing editor of the Daily Telegraph, which was published in the New Statesman on April...
...mind being told the worst but refuse to believe anything but the best. Winston Churchill knows this well, and one of the qualities which make his words reverberate with heroism is his ability to tell bad news and make it seem somehow good-to make gloomy sentences add up to buoyant paragraphs. Last week he spoke of casualties, property destruction, difficulties-of production, the flub at Dakar. His doom-ridden peroration was a bright passage in the literature of hope...
...Rockefellers' Center Theatre. Before and behind a curtain composed of 315,720,000 fibres of shimmering glass, a large company of skaters perform a series of fleet and charming ballets interrupted by specialty turns and, not often enough for many spectators, Joe Cook. Steel runners on ice add many mobile possibilities to the human body, and these have never been better exploited, thanks largely to the choreography of Catherine Littlefield & Robert Linden, which avoids boring platoon movements and sticks to free, whirling ballet designs...
April 1940-"Those seven months that we have had have enabled us to make good and remove our weaknesses ... so enormously to add to our fighting strength that we can face the future with a calm and steady mind, whatever it brings...
...guns. Best of his current gadgets: a piano attached to a velocipede arrangement that enables him to pedal Jane Pickens, his diva, about to the rhythm of the jaunty air Catsup on the Moon. His giggle is infectious, his puns hilarious and he has the Dancing De Marcos to add pace to his show. But not even Wynn's enormous talent can prevent the diligence of his comic efforts from appearing occasionally somewhat strained...