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...Shima fleet during the battle are found in the U.S., and many reports . . . were written neither with ample knowledge nor facts of actual features." He defended himself against Critic James A. Field Jr., who wrote in The Japanese at Leyte Gulf that "Shima, in a sense, is the buffoon of the tragedy...
...Buffoon or not, Shima has a lot to explain. On Oct. 25, 1944, the second day of the historic sea fight, Shima steamed toward Surigao Strait, south of Leyte Gulf, with two heavy cruisers, a light cruiser and four destroyers, still distant from the main battle. He hoped to reach Leyte Gulf in time to harass U.S. landing forces there, but his entire contribution to the battle, as Historian Morison observes, was to ram his flagship into a crippled heavy cruiser of another Japanese force, after firing 16 torpedoes at two islands he mistook for U.S. ships...
...drawings and sculptures. The author went to those who had known him-both "the indulgent sentimentalists, who melt as they tell of the handsome and elegant young man, so lordly, so cultivated and so exquisitely kind-hearted," and "the intolerant, for whom the artist does not excuse the unbearable buffoon, who could neither stand alcohol nor keep away from it, the weak author of his own downfall, the boring, drunken spoil-sport...
...otherwise first-rate production of William Saroyan's The Time of Your Life.) Perhaps Gleason's worst mistake: replacing Art Carney and Audrey Meadows, who were actors, and could play up to Gleason's roaring diatribes and outrageous double takes, with Buddy Hackett, a lowbrow buffoon funny on his own but not much help to Gleason...
...Scoyk, who used to write for Jackie Gleason, clearly fixed his view on Sunday night and its two warring clans, the Sullivans and the Aliens. On either channel the image was poor. Jack Oakie's ogling, leering Bill ("Hello, you beautiful people") Brogan was a gusty old buffoon eating high off the ratings when the opposing network decided to fight him with a popular young singer (Earl Holliman). The singer had to survive Madison Avenue metaphors ("Throw Wednesday night in his lap and let him kick it around") and a scourge of publicity beaters who manufactured a cheap exchange...