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Closest crony and bitterest critic of Director La Cava, now 49, is another unreconstructed Hollywoodian, one W. C. Fields. Fields refers to La Cava as The Wop. La Cava's nickname for the comedian is unprintable. Crack golfers, they used to play for $100 a hole. Fields, who says he would cheat his own grandmother for cash, generally managed to talk his opponent out of match and stakes. He has willed him (although La Cava doesn't know it) $5,000 for mad money...
This is the greatest mass of rabble-rousing ever compiled-some 100 of Hitler's speeches in one volume-and, in the words of New York Times Critic Charles G. Poore,"the greatest anthology of broken promises." Editor: Franco-American Newspaperman Raoul de Roussy de Sales. Its 987 pages cover the Hitler rhetorical record from an obscure speech in 1922 outlining the seven "most important fundamental principles" of Naziism, which was unnoticed even by the German press, to his proclamation of war against Russia, which was flashed to the whole world...
Oscar Stauffer, 21 years younger than Arthur Capper, is a tolerant critic of Roosevelt's foreign policy. But Arthur Capper blankets northeast and central Kansas with isolationist sentiments equaled in venom only by the Chicago Tribune...
This essay, abashing to Christmas-Carol Dickensians, arresting to highbrows who have never read Dickens in long pants, is an incisive collaboration by Wilson the Marxist and Wilson the amateur psychiatrist. But Wilson the literary critic is too much on the sidelines. Result: suggestive rather than definitive criticism...
...about foreign policy: 1) the U.S. can probably lick the Japanese; 2) this would be a Navy job primarily, and the U.S. is prouder and surer of its powerful Navy than of its half-equipped Army; 3) many isolationists are rabidly anti-Japanese. Even Montana's acidulous, 100% critic Burton K. Wheeler said: "I think the President did the right thing. You may say for me that I agree with him-for the first time...