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...still-life published by the Evening Globe yesterday purported to show the "real" Ibis, posed with what the Lampsters called "the Crimson's prize duck" and a mysterious beer mug. But a brief investigation revealed the two birds to be outsiders put over on the gullible Globe...
...Africa, Europe, Asia, Washington, D.C. Sometimes his job, and his living quarters were so pleasant that "I felt heartily ashamed of [our] comfort [while] our combat units, replete with Spam, [were] contesting with the cold and the mud." Yet even air intelligence officers had their share of bombs to duck, their jobs to do. Off the Salerno beachhead Major Sheean's ship, the Ancon, stood up to 19 German bombings in one day. Beyond Salerno itself a sudden German ground thrust nearly caught Major Sheean asleep, forced him to evacuate in such a rush that "my rare and wonderful...
...come back, badly in need of a bath and reeking of blubber, the sealers will be able to make a few more dollars by selling flippers (up since the war from $1 a dozen to $1 apiece) to housewives for flipper pies. The flippers, which taste something like saltwater duck, are one of Newfoundland's national dishes...
...neighbor, an ex-professor of chemistry, egged on by a boozily mischievous advertising man, acts out a cruel, funny little fable of Good & Evil when he banishes the ducks he loves and sublimates the duck-killing turtles he abominates into a best-selling soup. "Turtle soup," chortles the adman, captioning a pallid portrait of a lady in crinolines, "saved the sweethearts and mothers of a proud and gallant race." Another neighbor, variously known as Blackburn, Malatesta and Swarzkopf, turns out to be the Devil, and delivers some of Author Wilson's most envenomed and heartfelt opinions (notably on Stalinism...
...getting so that the Broadway critics scarcely had time to duck. Maxwell Anderson had socked them for their treatment of Truckline Café (TIME, March 11). This week Playwright Irwin Shaw, in a preface to the published version of his short-lived Assassin (Random House; $2), socked them harder...