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...main fact which makes this book so homely-good is that its author's heart is in the right place: whenever it is not in his mouth, it's back in Montclair, N.J., with his wife Peg and his daughters Joan, Susan and Nancy. As a refrain, all through the account of fighters and fighting appear touching snatches from Peg's and the girls' letters-the perennials Peg won at a bridge game, Susan and her clarinet, Nancy's i sth-birthday trip to New York, the Girl Scout hike, the bicycle trek to Newark...
...British, one Canadian, and three Swedish companies. This cartel, charged Justice, controls some 75% of the world's match business (the Japanese* and the Russians handle most of the rest). Its members have divided up the world among themselves and, except in rare spasms of greed, scrupulously refrain from trespassing on each other's preserves...
Berlin posters cried birthday greetings to the Fiührer: "Our walls may crumble but our hearts stay firm." Tiredly, Propagandist Joseph Goebbels eulogized: "Even the greatest leaders of history will be faced with occasional setbacks." Discreetly the radio did not play the Horst Wessel Song or the refrain: Today Germany, tomorrow the world!; instead, it broadcast a Handel Concerto Grosso, Beethoven's Eroica...
Though most of the numbers on the program were Hampton originals, they lacked the musical expressiveness of Ellington compositions and it can only be hoped that Lionel will in the future refrain from the concert stage and remain in the jitterbug dance halls where his music belongs...
...shall refrain from obvious comment...