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...negligee, insulting old women, hiding in a bait box full of anchovies, etc., but it's no use: the hoary farcicle smothers his brand of fast, wisecracking humor. For his truth-telling pains, he wins the $10,000 and Paulette Goddard. Perhaps it's Hitler's fault, but telling the truth isn't very funny any more...
...Exceptional cases," was interpreted as meaning men who can otherwise complete their degree requirements and who can show evidence that there college course "would be interrupted through no fault of their own." This does not, at the present time, include men in Military or Naval Science who want to speed up their work merely in order to increase their chances of promotion. Nor does it favor those who desire early admission to professional schools...
Manager Bill McKechnie of the Cincinnati Reds bought a plane ticket from Chicago to Pittsburgh, jumped into a cab after he landed, ordered the driver to Forbes Field. The driver had never heard of it. McKechnie seethed but it was not the driver's fault. McKechnie had hopped the wrong plane, was sitting in a cab in Detroit...
...armed effort with its industrial capacity; they are not succeeding. There is no forceful high War Policy Board. There are innumerable agencies at the same level of authority. There is no integrated authority. There is no rational organization. There is no rational plan. Who, or what, is at fault? "The major responsibility for this state of affairs rests squarely on the doorstep of the President...
...fault of Editor Ingersoll's, the idea for Parade belongs to an efficiency expert named Ross Art Lasley, a 42-year-old Yalester whose high-powered advice has for ten years been sold to such high-powered clients as Standard Oil, Western Union, National Dairy Products, Pennsylvania Railroad. Called in by Marshall Field's lawyers and trustees to dilute PM losses (TIME, June 2), Expert Lasley came out with Parade. He also decided to do the editing himself...