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Monty Woolley is funny because he throws rocks at little children; Dorothy Parker is funny because she didn't go to Vassar; but Bob Hope is funny because everything he says or does or thinks turns out to be a boomerang, with him at the gag end. In Sam Goldwyn's latest celluloid, Hope has Leonard (Hyman Kaplan) Ross' script to play with, and it turns out to be much spontancous than any of the slightly forced travelogue series...
That even a good Government order can boomerang was all too evident last week: a what-will-come-next buying wave skyrocketed department-store sales to 45% above 1942 in the first week after OPA's shoe-rationing order (TIME, Feb. 15). Despite Government assurances that rationing of other clothing was not in the cards, customers bought up retail clothing stocks as if they were the last they would ever see. The U.S. public had not yet learned that the best way to avoid rationing is to avoid overbuying in the first place...
...President's appointment of Bronx Boss Ed Flynn as Ambassador to Australia had turned out, during his absence, to be the worst political boomerang he had tossed since the Supreme Court fight. It was too late to repair the damage: the President would be busy for months erasing the memory of the mistake...
...meeting has shown none of the advances in strategy or collaboration which might have made last night's news the "greatest story of the year." Its publicity can only be a boomerang in the face of Washington and the press. To over-emphasize the good news is as poor policy as to conceal the bad; to herald in superlatives the intangible accomplishments of the current meeting can only minimize when it comes the effect of a realized collaboration among the United Nations...
...Boomerang. Because Britain long encouraged the teaching of English in Indian schools and colleges, Indians learned to like their news in English, which explains why so many Indian papers are printed in English. By watching the British press, Indians long ago learned that an unfettered press is a steppingstone to freedom. Because they had good British newsmen as models (Rudyard Kipling joined the Lahore Civil and Military Gazette in 1882), Indians grew up to be Grade A journalists, dialectically skillful, intensely nationalistic...