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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, leafing through a muscle-building magazine, set eyes on an article by Charles Atlas in which the Muscle Mahatma expressed pity for "the poor little chap" Gandhi and offered to build him up, for nothing. Exclaimed Gandhi: "I have met some inventive Americans, but Atlas takes the first prize...
Hitchcock, who admits to a liking for murder amid babbling brooks, steps up the excitement of his picture by deftly under stating his saboteurs' characters. One (Alan Baxter), a nice chap who might be an accountant, amiably discusses his children and their future with Cummings, who has passed himself off as a ring member...
...Asiatic Fleet. A good choice, certainly. The focus of all operations in the southwest Pacific is a British naval base, Singapore, but the greatest actual and potential naval power in the Pacific is U.S. power. And even the British are willing to admit that Tommy Hart is a progressive chap. His American colleagues think he is more than that; they think he is as tough of mind as he is wiry of body, that he is aggressive, independent, wide-awake (TIME...
...flew in at 2,000 feet. . . . When Balbo came over, an Italian cruiser in the harbor . . . opened fire and struck the Marshal's plane with a direct hit. . . . All this talk about him having been betrayed into an ambush was utter rot. . . . He was really a first-class chap . . . and I'm glad of a chance to clear this business...
Unique among the 7,000-odd scholars of Cambridge is a mild young chap of less than average stature who is a philosopher, a psychologist, a photographer, a mechanical engineer-to-be, and in moments not otherwise occupied, a tumbling, balloon-breaking, white-faced clown with a putty nose...