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...Camp Wolters, near Mineral Wells, Tex. (pop. 6,303), where he was nicknamed "Bushface" (because of the mustache he took to camp), he still kept his homebody habits. Few weeks ago Mineral Wells's Chamber of Commerce, proud of its friendliness to men in khaki, heard with chagrin that Private Bushface Krause, alone among his fellows, had never thought it worth-while to spend 10?, ride three miles to town...
Last week stanchly Catholic Caudillo Franco learned to his chagrin that he had kissed an unwed foot. Dahl, now an instructor for the Royal Canadian Air Force, had married again, reporting himself unmarried. Miss Rogers, who greeted Dahl with limited affection when he returned from Spain last year, admitted that the Mexican civil ceremony he once went through with her was, for some reason, no legal marriage...
Pretty Pauline Betz, like Dodo Bundy, is a sun-kissed Californian. Daughter of a physical-education teacher, she learned her tennis in Los Angeles' public parks. Southern California's pride in the Misses Betz and Bundy was mixed with chagrin. For both of them had deserted California, enrolled as students at Florida's Rollins College...
...Their chagrin today is not due so much to the fact that they made a mistake, I suspect, but rather to the knowledge that the vast majority of non-intellectuals who inhabit the hinterland west of New York City-and whom our "intellectuals" despised for their Rotarianism, their devotion to business, their taste in art and entertainment, their patriotism, their family life, et al.-these same provincials saw clearly ten to 15 years ago that Communism and Fascism were cut from the same pattern and that as governments both resembled Capone's rule of gangsterdom. Such ignorance and lack...
Whether it was reading headlines or attending Youth Congresses that did the trick, the previously complacent S. N. Behrman has turned into a fire-eating social commentator. Much to his chagrin, he has now become the butt of his own satire. Last year in "No Time For Comedy" he poked laughing fingers at playwrights who suddenly began to write epics of world importance. Now in "The Talley Method" he has caught the disease whose symptoms he diagnosed so well. Perhaps for the very reason that he knew all the errors he might have fallen into, Mr. Behrman has made...