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Roughly Speaking (Warners) should not disappoint admirers of Louise Randall Pierson's brisk, brash autobiography of a rampant housewife (TIME, June 28, 1943), and will probably amuse plenty of others. Dashing through some 40 years, it does comically for the U.S. middle class much of what A Tree Grows in Brooklyn does more seriously for the not-quite-working class...
...loves censors, but some-like those at SHAEF-are especially unloved. Said the New York Times's crack Drew Middleton: "The worst [censorship] I have experienced in five years." The OWI's brash George H. Lyon (former Buffalo Times editor) risked a reprimand by calling SHAEF policy "stupid," and was straightway backed up by his boss, Elmer Davis...
...centuries-the voice of a canoeman floating down the Ohio, a chorus raised in an Illinois clearing, a medley of tunes on a Mississippi steamboat, a soldiers' rouse round a Civil War campfire, the guttural throb of Negro blues, the frilly ditties of the Gay Nineties, the brash rhythms of speakeasy jazz...
Baby Snooks had grown old. So had Fanny Brice, who mothered the brash radio moppet a generation ago and has made a consistently good living out of her (radio salary: $5,000 a week). Said Fanny, now 52: "When you get old, you have to worry. You might get ooglie-booglie." With this thought in mind, Fanny last week trotted out a new character on her new Post Toasties show (CBS, Sun., 6:30 p.m., E.W.T...
Local dignitaries were shocked when Simone suddenly swooped among them, shouting brash advice for delaying the enemy. They were staggered when, just before the Nazis marched in, Simone slipped into her uncle's gasoline station, blew the tanks skyhigh...