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...only controversy but new evidence about Hitler has developed in the dozen years since Bullock's biography first appeared. The record of the Fiihrer's wartime table talk-his ad-lib sermonizings noted down by awed subordinates-proves again that his convictions had altered not one fanatic whit from the days when he wrote Mein Kampf, 20 years before. A complete rereading of "the whole of the documentary evidence for Hitler's foreign policy" has led Bullock to modify some details of his account of the years 1933-39, but to "disagree with Mr. Taylor more than...
...hasn't varied much since. She sings (sometimes with a partner), plays a banjo at breathtaking speed, and tells ad-lib stories. Between engagements, she has an oddly energetic pastime for a 15-stone woman who coyly says "I'm about ten pounds overweight": she goes off with her musical director and longtime friend Ernest Wampola (a Viennese doctor of music) on camping trips in the bush country of central Africa, where she fishes and photographs game. She has caught tiger fish in the Chobe River in Bechuanaland and fat, Dark Continent catfish in Southern Rhodesia...
...would rather play Benny's living room than any theater on earth. Equally loyal to his TV staff, Benny hasn't hired a new writer for 14 years; he freely acknowledges his large debt to them, and when Fred Allen was once out-talking him in an ad-lib joust, he said testily that if only his writers were with him he could make Allen look silly...
Peabody's do-good campaign alienated many Democratic professionals. But Volpe offended some voters by refusing to debate with Peabody, even though Peabody's ad-lib remarks frequently are confusing enough to prompt the crack: "He played football too long without a helmet...
...lives outside of South Africa. The Liberal Party magazine Contact is no longer able to print articles by Party Leader Patrick Duncan, who edits it from exile in Basutoland. Actor-Playwright Cecil Williams may appear in other people's plays−as long as he does not ad-lib−but no one can appear in his. Two Capetown city councilors are allowed to attend council meetings, but their remarks must be left out of the record. No one may publish cross-examination−or even scholarly legal briefs−by Abraham Fischer, defense counsel in South Africa...