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...have been any brogue-rippling old male biddy. But as Fitzgerald portrays him-senile, vain, childish, stubborn, good, bewildered, stupid-he is the quintessence of the pathos, dignity and ludicrousness which old age can display. Father O'Malley, still more dangerously, might have been one of those brisk, bland up-&-comers who have made an impure science of "not acting like a priest at all." Instead he is subtle, gay, debonair-a wise young priest whose arresting resemblance to Bing Crosby never obscures his essential power...
...anxious throngs who crowded into Mexico City's Palacio Nacional this week, bland President Manuel Avila Camacho displayed a two-inch swath burned in the jacket of his grey-and-red striped suit, a similar powder burn in his white shirt beneath. The burns were over his heart...
...University of Chicago, where he teaches in the Law School, Professor Mortimer J. Adler is known to older and possibly somewhat envious teachers as the "professor of the blue sky." An intellectually wily, bland, brash and confident man, he has married scholarship to intellectual impertinence with amusing and sometimes instructive results. His chief conviction is that if one knows how to think, one can think about anything. Four years ago Professor Adler was busy telling the U.S. public the "rules" of reading in a best-seller (TIME, March 18, 1940) which he gaily titled How to Read a Book...
...Alexis McClure's P&PW (Publicity and Psychological Warfare Division). Infantry-trained General McClure learned a lot about how to run his outfit (and how not to) in the Africa and Sicily invasions. He is well liked, tries to meet newsmen's requirements. His chief deputy is bland, balding British Brigadier William A. S. Turner, formerly War Office public-relations director...
...Timers continued to grind out novels in 1943. John P. Marquand published So Little Time ($2.75), a sad, bland tale of a polished but warm-hearted literary hack whose success cost him his self-respect. Upton Sinclair's Wide Is the Gate ($3), his 63rd book, carried his almost legendary Lanny Budd through the corrupt vicissitudes of Europe between wars. Sinclair Lewis' Gideon Planish ($2.50), a withering blast at phony philanthropists and do-gooders, awoke pale memories of Elmer Gantry. With The Forest and the Fort ($2.50), Anthony Adverse's Hervey Allen hewed...