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Clubmembers celebrated the Club's founding by sending their personal cards to the chef inscribed with "special directions and praises" and visting the kitchen to compliment him after they had finished. "Your products are chef d'oeuvres rivalling those of Madame Poulard of Mont Saint Michel which I love so well," Gidding proclaimed in a eulogy to the blushing cook...
Walter Reuther did not take the angry compliment as an offer, stayed with his union. Now he directs its activities in General Motors plants. Last fortnight he bounced into Washington with an idea for sale-free. He wanted to give it away to Defense Commissioner Knudsen, President Roosevelt, anybody else who would use it. His idea: let the U. S. Government take the automobile industry in hand, mobilize its vast capacity for aircraft manufacture...
...Carpenter's discretion would ever go. The music becomes broad and majestic and affirmative, only to drop off at the end in a charmingly deprecatory manner." Said the Journal of Commerce's Claudia Cassidy: "Attractive with no apparent intent to be profound, call it a graceful compliment to the jubilee season...
...sneered at by waiters, cigaret and hat-check girls, or bored by a commercial girl show. He called it Café Society, and turned loose some excellent comic artists (among them Peggy Bacon, William Gropper) to plaster its walls with jibes against cafe socialites-who returned the compliment by staying away. Nevertheless, Cafe Society made money. Its clientele was mostly 1) left-wing intellectuals, 2) jazz addicts. For Proprietor Josephson placed the joint's musical policy in the reverential hands of John Henry Hammond Jr., arch-hierophant of U. S. jazz. High Priest Hammond made Cafe Society...
...compliment either to the virtues of Jane Austin's book or the maturity of Hollywood that "Pride and Prejudice" has maintained its integrity on its perilous journey from paper to film. It appears on the screen as a startling and refreshing example of a picture that clicks without having resorted to the run-of-the-mill movie formulas...