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...need (hay, grain, green vegetables, horse meat) is unrationed. To replace scarce bananas they now serve a sweet potato; instead of Japanese ants, favorite food of many a zoo bird, they dish out a dried New Mexican water bug. Almost no animals have been imported in two years; zoos breed their own, and swap surplus stock. Lions are almost free for the asking...
...both of them. If the audiences hoped for something with the drama of Coward's cinema tribute to the Royal Navy, In Which We Serve (TIME, Dec. 28), they were disappointed. Present Laughter is another of Coward's smooth, neatly frappéed cocktails, and This Happy Breed is a wholesome and slightly doughy shepherd...
This Happy Breed, a cavalcade of lower middle class life in a London suburb between two wars, is an attempted salute to the common man. Extending from 1919 to 1939, it tells the sometimes drab story of the durable Gibbons family, their births, marriages, deaths, their small joys and fair-sized sorrows. Rich in accurate observation, and at moments funny, it is lean on drama and lacking in depth. No British Chekhov or even Odets, Coward has the wish to be a serious dramatist without the wherewithal. A born sophisticate, he is at ease on figure skates, but slightly awkward...
Universal Knowledge. "Holy is lucidity," as an English writer once put it, "and the mind that dare explain." Men are now dying not to win a negative "peace" but to bring about a more lawful, and therefore a more intelligently dynamic, world. Knowledge does not necessarily breed affection, nor affection justice; but in each case, it helps. The responsibilities of those who win and survive this war will not end with feeding famished people but with letting them in on the learning, both humane and technical, that enriches peace...
...Failure to reach the quota will be penalized by a fine of $10 Chinese (5¼? U.S.) for each missing rat; $5 bounties will be paid for extra rats. According to popular report, the campaign was limited to two weeks because a longer period would permit the enterprising to breed rats, collect exorbitant bounties...