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...more "sophisticated" friends make him rather sick: "I feel sick when I find anyone adjusting his mind to the new tyranny which is succeeding abroad. ... I resent the patronizing air of persons who find in my plain belief in freedom a sign of immaturity. If it is boyish to believe that a human being should live free, then I'll gladly arrest my development and let the rest of the world grow up. ... I believe in freedom with the same burning delight, the same faith, the same intense abandon which attended its birth on this continent more than...
...those who know Adolf Busch, such musicianly zeal was no occasion for surprise. German by birth, Swiss by choice, sturdy, boyish Adolf Busch has long plied his art in the U.S., giving music performances that highlighted the music, not the performances. Busch prefers his music straight, as the composer wrote it, hence scorns transcriptions, distrusts editions, tries to ferret out original manuscripts whenever possible...
Articulate, charming and forthright, Vicki Baum made excellent copy. She told women's clubs that American men were boyish and courteous but not quite aware enough of the necessity of romance; she fell off a horse and got a mild concussion; she spent several months in Bali and months more cruising Shanghai in disguise; she was one of few women who could count both Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo among her friends; she told Kansas City that American women drink too much...
...hospital is tall, boyish Edward Archie Mclntosh, who cleaned out a Jap machine-gun nest after his own scouting party had been wiped out and he himself had been horribly wounded in the right leg. Although he is cheerful and chipper, his friends reported that his main worry now is whether "my girl will like a fellow with only...
What was happening to the 16,000,000 as the Japanese poured in? There was sparse news to give the U.S. a clue. In Washington, Joaquín Miguel Elizalde, Philippine Resident Commissioner, admitted that he was perplexed at the reports that came from the islands. Boyish, athletic Mike Elizalde gave up his suite at the Shoreham Hotel and took modest living quarters on the fourth floor of the redbrick Philippine Commonwealth Building. For Mike Elizalde, as for all Filipinos to greater or lesser degree, the change meant a test of the Filipino character as it has not been tested...