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Edward M. Queeny, Monsanto Chemical Co. president and G.O.P. contributor, had an idea. The Missouri delegation that supported Wendell Willkie at the 1940 Convention had long since soured on Mr.Willkie's outspoken internationalism. Why not draft a set of have-you-stopped-beating-your-wife questions and demand that Willkie answer them in writing? In St. Louis, Queeny drew up nine questions, gave Willkie a ten-day deadline for his answers. Samples...
...Hollywood tunes (except for parodies masculine or martial), tracked down the favorites of the corps and the camps. The collection includes the solemn, the irreverent, the rowdy. There is a long-faced hymn of high resolve by Robert E. Sherwood (Tune: The Battle Hymn of the Republic). Another contributor is Beatrice Ayer Patton (wife of General "Blood & Guts"), whose March of the Armored Corps is appropriately scored for pistol...
...with its Irish setters, cats and parrots, was always open to New Havenites. They came to talk and borrow the books he recommended. For years his T. & B. course (Tennyson & Browning) met in four sections of 150 students each-including athletes who knew Phelps would not readily flunk a contributor to Yale's glory...
...good news from Leverett is S/Sgt. George Avakian, famous jazz critic, writer, collector, arranger of recording dates, and contributor to this column, has made arrangements to do a series of "Jazzmen" programs every Thursday night at 9 o'clock over the Crimson Network. For the next three weeks, starting this Thursday, S/Sgt. Avakian will discuss the Chicago Jazz Album which he did for Decca three years ago, taking it session by session, and showing the development of the musicians, styles, and numbers involved. Recorded music is entirely different from live music, and with a man like George Avakian running things...
Americans often wonder what the British see in Punch. But one steady Punch contributor who easily hurdles all transatlantic barriers of humor is shy, blond, 35-year-old Rowland Emett. Emett is a daft satiric cartoonist in the English tradition of Max Beerbohm and Edward Lear. He is the producer of a fine series of affectionate burlesques of the British wartime scene. He is also, first & foremost, a comic master of an internationally favorite theme-the railway...