Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Although the Axis finally lost North Africa, the North African campaign as a whole gained the Germans a great deal. Rommel's performance with the relatively small Afrika Korps (never more than four German divisions) ranks among the brilliant gambles of history. With the Italians, he all but closed the Mediterranean to Allied shipping, forced the costly extension of Allied supply lines, for two critical years pinned down a large proportion of Britain's effective military strength, to that extent delayed any possible invasion of the Continent when Russia was in its direst straits...
...Barrymore, George M. Cohan and many another flit through the book as mere bit players; even Jessel's wives remain blurred as individuals. His mother, his mainstay on the stage, draws a blank. Next to Jessel in importance are Jessel's gags. The best are none too brilliant. Of a decrepit theater he played in: "I was sure there were wild deer in the balcony." Of quarters in a crowded hotel: "We were finally given a room overlooking a coat hanger." As a final gag, Jessel reviewed his own book in Variety last week, described it as "rather...
...credit to Fred Kaplan, whose imagination carried him to a very brilliant coup ; but what happened to produce the illusion that seven hearts was "the highest makable contract" and that seven spades is automatically defeated...
Reticent Man. The First's commander, Kenneth Arthur Noel Anderson, is a formal, frugal, unglamorous Scot who has been somewhat eclipsed for the outside public by the brilliant commanders above and around him in Tunisia, and for his own troops by his brilliant juniors within the First Army. He speaks fluent French, and his French subordinates like his Scottish mentality...
...hardboiled, stern Generalissimo, whose mother was a devout Buddhist, came under the influence of three powerful Christian influences in youth and early manhood-Dr. Sun Yatsen, "Mother" K. T. Soong and her daughter, Meiling. In 1930, three years after he had married the brilliant, Wellesley-educated Meiling, Chiang was baptized a Methodist, the faith of his wife and her family. But not until his captivity in Sian, by his testimony, did his religion become a part of himself, and thus a part of China...