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Among the Allies' top planning soldiers John Dill found friends-General Marshall, "Hap" Arnold, the Navy's "Ernie" King-and bound them close to him by his easy wit, his Jim Farley-like ability to remember first names and nicknames, his all-round proficiency as a soldier and a staff officer...
...thing is partly delightful because Playwright Chase (a former Denver newspaperwoman whom Dorothy Parker once called "the greatest undiscovered wit in the country") has written some immensely funny lines, and in Elwood has created a very special character-droll, daffy, warmhearted, touching. It is also partly delightful because Elwood, who on a stage could easily become incredible or dismaying, is played to perfection by veteran Vaudevillian Frank Fay (as is Elwood's harassed sister by Josephine Hull). Fay not only makes Elwood a fine fellow when he is riding high; he makes him an even finer one when...
What the Allies now needed was a capacious, intact, nearby port-to wit, Antwerp (see above). Shortages of almost everything from ammunition to cigarets and field kitchens had popped up and were still popping up all along the front. Cursing doughfoots ate cold rations, got along on ten cigarets a day. At one point the Third Army fired captured shells from captured 88s. The First Army served their own 155s with ammunition which had been captured from the French by the Germans in 1940, retaken from the Germans...
Call the Celebrities. Hollywood fought glamor with glamor. The Hollywood-for-Dewey Committee had nice legs, a pretty wit and good lungs : Ginger Rogers, Hedda Hopper, Rosalind Russell, Cecil B. de Mille, Anne Baxter, Leo Carrillo and Adolphe Menjou. So did the Hollywood Committee of New Dealers: Rita Hayworth, Olivia de Havilland, Katharine Hepburn, Orson Welles, Harpo Marx, Lana Turner, Walter Huston, Fanny Brice...
When Dr. Johnson, in his English dictionary, defined oats as "a grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people," he was insulting his neighbors to the north as seriously-and as jokingly-as a coffeehouse wit could. In the 370 pages of his just-published Dictionary of International Slurs (Sci-Art; $6.25), Cambridge's Dr. Abraham Aron Roback, since 1926 lecturer in Massachusetts' University Extension Division, sees such insults as no joking matter. His dictionary is an earnest contribution to education in internationalism, aimed to expose the way in which...