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Part of the Britons' cool thoroughness was explained by their months of field training at Hong Kong, part by their commander, big, affable Brigadier Basil Aubrey Coad, who moved constantly through his positions on the Naktong with the cool aplomb of a duke at a garden party. During the first day's action, one British company was cut off. No one got excited. Coad calmly ordered the company supplied by tanks and an airdrop, and a U.S. helicopter went into the cut-off company and brought out its first wounded. The British thought this was a particularly admirable...
...BACKWARD BRIDE (180 pp.)-Aubrey Menen-Scribner...
Cigar-puffing President Aubrey L. Ashby of tiny Olivet College, Mich., likes to call his administration "a period of sanitation." Called in two years ago to put Olivet back on its financial feet, he determined to rid the campus of its reputation for leftist-pacifist leanings (TIME, Jan. 24, 1949). In doing so, he raised a bigger academic rumpus than most presidents could raise in a lifetime...
...entertainment value as well as in the amount of impressive talent it displays. This story of a tailor who successfully woos a princess has the light directorial touch of Rouben Mamoulian and some superb Rodgers and Hart songs, including "Isn't it Romantic," "Mimi," and the immortal "Lover." C. Aubrey Smith and Myrna Loy are featured players, along with Charlie Ruggles as a flat broke viscount and Charlie Butterworth, that incomparable old-school comedian, as Chevalier's and eyed rival for Miss MacDonald's hand. "One Hour With You," on Ernst Lubitsch production is also an extremely pleasant...
...IOCA, Aubrey explained, has contracted for bus service at reduced rates for every Sunday during the Season after January...