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...Britain's most celebrated laxative manufacturer. Goateed, 63-year-old Sir Thomas Beecham is also an enthusiastic newlywed, a considerable amateur of the Elizabethan drama (especially Beaumont & Fletcher), an adamant and voluble Tory (though in this role he is really more of a Character than a Colonel Blimp), and a transparent apostle...
...people have wondered whether William Saroyan had it in him to write a whole, continuous novel. The Human Comedy, though it inevitably leaves its grandiloquent title looking like a half-inflated blimp, is a very nice novel indeed. It is, unfortunately, too nice to be as good, as it might have been if Saroyan were capable not only of goodness but of a concern with evil...
...Colonel Blimp. No matter how they react to outside critics, none can approach the British themselves at selfcriticism. No one has lampooned the British character so brilliantly as crotchety Cartoonist David Low. Last month Britons chuckled when Low wrote an article summing up the arguments of walrus-mustached Colonel Blimp, whom Low created. Said Blimp...
...sacred cows obstructed the editors' free range. The Cydoner's Colonel Blimp was one General Fivestars, whose troops were always getting lost. Cydoner's enlisted men did not hesitate to refer to "laws, as amended by Congress to make officers gentlemen...
...which the Navy gets the largest slice: $5,595,000,000-almost four billion of it for air. Main item is $2,862,000,000 for 14,600 airplanes, assuring the Navy of its 27,500 "program airplanes" early in 1944. About $36,000,000 is for 72 blimps, raising the blimp patrol total...