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...worst play in Broadway annals, Maid in the Ozarks is very likely the most needlessly disgusting. Though its publicity stresses sex, it contains little except the sort exemplified in a game of footie between two younkers known as Daisy Bell (Cecile de Lucas) and Thad Calhoun (Larry Sherman). Its long suit is actually scatology - lice, bedbugs, belches, outhouses, bare and dirty feet planted on the breakfast table. These intended guffaw-getters are complemented by such basic hillbilly humors as drunken lechers, gabbling halfwits and twitching hags...
...Fill Calhoun. currently Paris bureau chief, had two weeks in which to deliver a very tough job of reporting. Heretofore, getting French communists to talk had been about as easy as nailing a cherry pie to a wall. Calhoun assigned Bernhard Frizell, an experienced reporter who speaks French fluently, to question ordinary communists as to why they joined the party and to interview Mme. Thorez, who turned out to be strongly reminiscent of Pilar in For Whom the Bell Tolls...
...TIME Inc. correspondents in the field read F.Y.I, before turning to their copy of TIME to see if the news they cabled in got printed. Wrote one of them recently from our office in Shanghai: "F.Y.I, continues to be our favorite publication. We learn about Silk's ducks, Calhoun's sweatshirt, the TIME girls' parties for the G.I.s at Halloran (Hospital). . . . And how is luncheon at the Holland House, Isabella? And does one still see happy and familiar faces at the Three G's restaurant? Ah, forgive me, I'm weeping...
Dumbarton Oaks was chosen as site of the present three-power meeting because of its convenient location in Rock Creek, not far from the Capital. It was once the home of John C. Calhoun...
...ways. He walked the Admiral's deck, by his own estimate covering eight to ten miles a day, frequently stripped to the waist to absorb the sun's healthful rays. A war correspondent cracked: "Spruance will win the war in a walk-literally." Vice Admiral William L. Calhoun, chief of Pacific supply, remarked with admiration: "A cold-blooded fighting fool...