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...Skin of Our Teeth. Thornton Wilder's brightly cockeyed account of the story of mankind, in which dinosaurs collide with bingo (TIME...
...bombing and the black-hearted intentions of Hitler's gang, but limited, unfortunately, by the whims of editors to writing minor fiction and articles on fishing. This book represents, then, the eruption of a long repressed critical volcano in which every sacred American institution from Mom down to bingo comes in for a baptism of fire. What distinguishes it from the run-of-the-mill Menckenisms and Peglerisms is a set of sound philosophical premises. The style is pungent and rings all the possible changes on the modern journalistic vocabulary, but behind it all is the conviction, set forth...
...skipper of Scouting Eight (dive-bombers) and the bigheart of the Hornet. Gus always kept five dollars in nickels so he could buy everybody cokes in the wardroom after evening general quarters. He could play badminton on the hangar deck better than anyone else. He had better luck at Bingo in the ready room than anyone else. There was always a wisecrack on his tongue, but he was a flyer's flyer. George Stokely, his radio man and gunner, called him "the crazy flying...
Musicomedy's most sophisticated composer was born in Peru, Ind., the son of a fruitgrowing farmer. After graduating from Yale (where he wrote the still popular Bulldog and Bingo) in 1913, Porter went for a year to Harvard Law School, then switched to the department of music. While still a student he had a musical, See America First, produced on Broadway. It contained one Porter song which still makes middle-aged sentimentalists blink over their highballs: I've a Shooting Box in Scotland (words by Porter's good friend T. Lawrason Riggs, longtime Catholic chaplain at Yale...
...Excelsior, N.J. into the story of mankind. But where Our Town, despite its reckless stagecraft, was a warm and human allegory nourished with cracker-barrel wisdom, The Skin of Our Teeth is a cockeyed and impudent vaudeville littered with asides and swarming with premeditated anachronisms. Dinosaurs collide with bingo; the Muses jostle the microphone...