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After hot debate in the House of Commons, Laborite J. D. Mack summed up: "The matter is much more deep-rooted than is admitted. Poland's record of anti-Semitism is one of the world's worst. Orders of the Polish Government are being ignored...
...directed the landing on Rendova from his flagship the McCawley (nicknamed the "Wacky Mack" on account of previous unorthodox exploits). Turner was not the man to run an operation by remote control. In crowded Rendova Harbor the Wacky Mack was hit and knocked out by Jap aircraft. Turner and his staff abandoned the slowly foundering ship, crawled over landing nets into a destroyer, dangling their uniforms on clothes hangers. But he got "that boy" on the beach without the loss of a single life. When it was over he commented sarcastically: "If you go in and can't handle...
...Mack Sennett (here working at Mabel Normand's feet) was as great an originator, in his own way, as Griffith. His comedies, always improvised on the spot, gave a vast, fresh native energy to the ancient traditions of clowning. They also made the law laughable and legs lucrative, were a training course for half the biggest stars of the '20s, and the source and schoolroom for the comedies of Rene Clair, the brilliant experiments of Preston Sturges...
...president of the Phillies last week turned out to be the new owner's son, Robert Ruliph Morgan Carpenter Jr. Bob Carpenter, 28, knows some baseball from having been president of the Class B Wilmington (Del.) Blue Rocks and from his father's longtime friendship with Connie Mack. As welcome in the Phillies' office as a 4-F infield, he promised to try to build a real team, to set up a farm system and to hire a general manager (out standing candidate: Herb Pennock, ex-Yankee pitcher and present Boston Red Sox farm director...
...rollicking Fred (Let-The-Chips Fall-Where-They-May) Knox is capable of becoming embarrassed, he must have become just that the other day in Harvard Union when he waxed impatient at the holdup in the chow line. "Hey, Mack," growled the agitated Frederick, prodding the back of a shortish gentleman in front of him, "what's the delay...