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...threw away their false teeth, hid in coal bins, jumped off harbor boats, paid up to $1,000 to civilian doctors to tell them how to fake illness. But he also found "psychopathic personalities," and among the toughest outfits: in North Africa soldiers in a crack airborne division took pot shots at Arabs to test their marksmanship, tossed hand grenades among their own men as a practical joke...
...many a month had Washington whiffed such a steamy mess. Smack in the middle of it was Housing Boss Wilson Wyatt's huge emergency housing program. And at the rate the pot was boiling, the big plan would soon be cooked...
Howard A. Coffin, 62, humorous, hefty general manager of the White Star Division of the Socony Vacuum Oil Co.; winner for the Republicans in Detroit's poor, melting-pot 13th District...
...turned out during the war. It is not a success. Within a certain limited scope Hart is almost incapable of writing a bad line; the plot crisis of "Christopher Blake" is both believable and original--in the sense that it has not been rendered meaningless by countless Hollywood pot-boilings; and the acting is remarkably good throughout the large cast. All of which makes the failure of the play particularly unfortunate, for what ails it cannot be remedied in the traditional method of the Boston try-out: by re-writing lines here, and patching and cutting out there...
Happy Birthday is sentimental rubbish. Not only does the author of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes convince nobody that gentlemen prefer librarians, but she has frantically tossed into the pot almost everything except good dialogue. That the pot ever boils is due to the presence and prestige of Helen Hayes...