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Star of the revival was shovel-mouthed, small-voiced Joe E. (for Evan) Brown, who has played the role before, both on the stage and in the movies, is a plausible and funny Elmer. Marvelous to witness was the enthusiasm with which he tore through food at each performance. In the course of an hour and a half as Elmer, he consumes a slice of ham, a batch of fried potatoes, four griddle cakes with syrup, a piece of pie, two cups of coffee, two apples, half a grapefruit, a glass of orange juice, two doughnuts, a slice of toast...
...parity with the Army and Navy. The late Brig. Gen. William ("Billy") Mitchell earned fame and martyrdom by doing the same. But Al Williams, on the Marine Corps's inactive list, considered that he was writing as a civilian. In a column last February he ripped & tore at the Navy's sacrosanct Selection Board (for arranging to kick out eight of the Navy's best flying officers, who had not gone to Annapolis). Last April he received a memorandum from Marine Corps Headquarters in Washington: "Further destructive criticism . . . will be considered sufficient cause . . . that your commission...
...this, his second year as baseball coach at Harvard, he had everything to lose and nothing to gain. In his first year at the Crimson helm he had inherited a generous sprinkling of veteran ball players and led them to a first-place tie in the E.I.L. June graduation tore that pennant-winning nine apart at the seams, and the outlook this spring was anything but promising...
...first siren wails since March tore the night air of Paris last week and citizens as they rushed to dugouts in their night clothes saw the whole sky streaked with tracer shells erupting like Roman candles...
...bang-up black-&-white man for that of mediocre painter. Four years ago, at the age of 41, white-haired, young-looking Adolf Dehn decided to take the plunge. Teutonically systematic, he began turning out one water color a day. His first tries were not too good; later he tore up two or three hundred of them. But he kept on, upped his output to two and even three a day, gave up lithographs altogether. Last year, on a Guggenheim Fellowship, Water-Colorist Dehn got himself a car and ranged Mexico and the Southwest, turning out water colors like...