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GALLIPOLI, by Alan Moorehead. A monument to the British defeat by the Turks at Gallipoli in 1915-which, like many another military disaster, is better remembered for valor than for folly. Combat writing that can stand with the classics in a much overwrit ten field...
...Gallipoli became a British synonym for "gallantry and folly" is the burden of the latest book by Alan Moorehead, Australian World War II war correspondent (North Africa, Europe). His account of this last great battle for Constantinople, when Western man last fought for "glory" and "immortality," gleams like a ribbon on khaki...
...world's gaudiest gambling hell, he undergoes seven acts of vaudeville, two complete ballets, about 15 casinos, several thousand slot machines and an oil gusher-not to overlook Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse, Frank Sinatra, Lena Home, Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, Frankie Laine, Cara Williams, Jerry Colonna, Agnes Moorehead. Sammy Davis Jr., the Four Aces, the Slate Brothers, Peter Lorre, and something that looks suspiciously like a seven-year-old geisha girl...
...country China, a backward look of terror on his face and a wicked-looking .45 in his hand. He soon comes to a mission outpost, where he is welcomed as the new man the bishop promised to send. And yet, as the doctor's wife (Agnes Moorehead) prattles to her husband (E. G. Marshall), "there seems to be so much in him that wasn't intended to be a priest." One look at Bogart, and the resident nurse (Gene Tierney) gets the same idea...
Kinsey & Sanskrit. The first clear sign that the U.S. had again caught the recitation bug was the smash success of the First Drama Quartette (Agnes Moorehead, Charles Laughton, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Charles Boyer) in Bernard Shaw's Don Juan in Hell, later superbly recorded by Columbia ($11.90). Then the three volumes of I Can Hear It Now . . . (Columbia; $5.95 each), Edward R. Murrow's playback of headlines and speeches from 1919 to 1949, sold a total of 500,000 sets. More than two dozen companies put tons of Vinylite at the disposal of almost anyone who would talk...