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Just about everybody seemed to be in favor of sweeping with a wide broom through the nation's military hospitals. Defense Secretary Louis Johnson was sure that he could save more than $25 million by closing down five of them and reducing the staff of 13 other military and naval hospitals. He had behind him the documented findings of the Hoover Commission, which were studded with instances where one branch of the service reared up costly hospitals in areas where another service had long wards of empty beds. Who was blocking these reforms? Last week the finger pointed...
...first novel, End as a Man, published in 1947 when he was only 24, was a keyhole report on life in a Southern military college; righteously indignant in one breath and droolingly prurient the next, it read like the notes of a small-town peeper on the broom closet of hell. Some critics went part way with Farrell's estimate of Willingham, but others rebuked the book as a discharge of childish hostility by a very young man. But when the book was twice taken to court for obscenity (and twice acquitted), readers caught the scent...
Short-Handled Broom. In California, bag-eyed Fred Allen handed in a sour' minority report. Said Allen (in 1942 Godfrey was dropped from the Allen show after a six-week experiment): "He's sweeping the country, and, Lord knows, it needs to be swept. But I think Arthur must be doing it with a short-handled broom-he's nearer the dirt than most people." To Allen, Godfrey is a sign of the times: "Millions of people think he's the funniest guy alive, but their standards are open to question. This...
...doubtless calculated, Beaverbrook, bristling like a new broom, also showed up at the office on Sunday morning, demanded to know who was on the job. Oliver-on-the-spot had a long talk with the Beaver, instantly and deeply impressed the new boss. Thereafter, Beaverbrook rarely turned a wheel without consulting Franks...
...subjecting her husband to "abuse" and telling "terrible lies" about Rossellini ("It seemed they were just trying to kill him"). But what really decided her on quitting, she added, was what happened to her ten-year-old daughter recently on a Minnesota farm. "Some newspapermen dressed themselves as broom sellers to try to get a statement out of her. That was inhuman...