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...Home-Fronters (War Food's Marvin Jones, Jimmy Byrnes, et al.) thought that any cut in soldier food or further heavy cuts in civilian supplies would be politically impossible and might hurt the war effort by cracking civilian morale...
Hank "the Broon" Sheller and Red English spent six days of their leave together--on the train. Tom Wilcox, "Dreamboat" Walker, Sam Wolf, et al, let no grass grow under their respective feet, for they all had dates immediately after returning to the Hub. What were your dates' names, boys? What do you mean, you don't know...
Throughout that world, everybody is passionately working and planning. Pathe is readying Le Bataillon du Ciel, whose real-life hero will be chief of French parachutists, one-armed Colonel Bourgoin. Gaumont plans to have Jean Cocteau direct his own La Belle et la Bête, assisted by ace director Marcel Pagnol. Artist Films is planning productions of Maupassant's Boule de Suif and Dostoevsky's Idiot. In Nice, Jacqueline Audry is directing France's sensational new eight-year-old Conrad in Les Malheurs de Sophie...
...Villa-Lobos legend (TIME, Jan. 29, 1940, et seq.) goes back to his youth, when he picked up a living playing in Brazilian cafes and theaters. When he be came known as a composer, he voiced a characteristic self-tribute: "Better bad of mine than good of others." Sent to France in 1922 on a Brazilian Government scholarship, he told his Paris teachers: "I didn't come to study with you; I came to show you what I've done...
...begun a hardy local regionalism of its own. Among its outstanding modern exponents was the "Group of Seven," formed just after World War I. They painted "the very look and feel of Canada," and resembled the famed "Ashcan School" which appeared in the U.S. in 1908 (Luks, Bellows, Sloan, et...