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Uninhibited Bob Hope adores his soldier audience. Monologist and avid ad-libber, he can and does depart from his prepared script at the drop of a hat. His camp followers drop their hats so willingly that they have to be cautioned beforehand to hold down the uproar. It could spoil the timing of jokes like this, which warm a soldier's heart...
...with gastritis, Prime Minister John Curtin got up from a hospital bed to address a rally in Sydney. The cool, pedagogic Laborite, who has never been avid for public office, said quietly: "Our honeymoon is finished. ... A new way of life is forced upon us. ... The time for controversy has ended. ... I am not going to waste time arguing about past mistakes. ... I will order and direct. . . . There is only one shield against the spread of total war, that is total effort to end it. ... Brains and brawn are better than bets and beer...
Three years as a male nurse in a German ambulance corps during the last war turned Painter Beckmann's mind to religious subjects, and for several years he painted dour Christs, saints and martyrs. An avid reader of Schopenhauer and other German philosophers, he found his own fantastically mystical style in the 19203, found also a ready market for his work in the salons of democratic Germany...
...Hall floors this morning, the Yardling Smoker Committeemen stood out clearly as peers of their trade. Old grads, blase upperclassmen and burly Yard cops burbled in unison that this year's Smoker was tops for all time. Entertainment--loud, raucous, spicy entertainment--was the bill of fare, and avid Freshmen gobbled their dish in glee. The Jones Brothers cleared the way for the evening's queens with a knowing, "now we understand each other, gentlemen." Although stripped of her bubbles and feathers. Sally Rand uncorked with deft grace the long suppressed libidos of exam-plagued undergraduates. Yvette proved...
...recluse relative. An ardent racing fan, he had served through World War I in the Irish Guards, where he was known as the best card player in the officers' mess. Early in 1940, after 26 years of marriage, Sir Jock had been divorced by Lady Broughton, an avid sportswoman who kept a private...