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Hugo's cousin, Devereux Bolinvar. last of the sporting, aristocratic New Jersey Bolinvars, is the book's second hero. "Dev" (6 ft. tall, "fit as a panther") knew all about Cousin Hugo's guilty worry. But Dev was too much of a gentleman to raise the question, and Hugo believed in letting sleeping dogs lie. So the cousins never spoke. But they spent all their time trying to outdo one another on horseback...
...hard-fought Saar sector last week reported that the Germans battled like devils until capture was inevitable; then on surrender calmly professed pro-Allied feelings. In a group of prisoners there was invariably one well rehearsed in an opening gesture of friendliness. His routine: "I have a cousin in Milwaukee. I haven't eaten in three days. I have never shot an American...
...whole gradual development of Apley from a human bus into a human tram, that the play falls short of the book-in irony, humanity, completeness. But greatly enlivening the plotless story and largely static portraiture are a continuing comedy of Back Bay manners, the incidental commotion of Cousin Hattie's tombstone and the best of the rather too recurrent laughs about Harvard or New York. Despite the laughs, the Apleys in the play show traces of New York blood in their veins-just enough, while slightly clouding the tone, to quicken the tempo...
...Army major shepherding entertainers in the China-Burma-India theater. Miss Gahagan is a former Broadway star (Tonight or Never), mother of two, a passionate New Dealer. Another new Douglas (no relation) in the House is Emily Taft Douglas, daughter of the late Sculptor Lorado Taft, distant cousin of William Howard Taft. Her husband, a University of Chicago economics professor on military leave, was defeated for the Senate in 1942, is now a Marine captain serving in the South Pacific. Third new Congresswoman is Connecticut's grey, matronly Mrs. Chase Going Woodhouse, political economy professor in a Connecticut college...
Sent home, the remorseful Radovich sold his war bonds and gave the money to the Army. Last week he was under detention at Mitchel Field. Martin Bayer was still in the U.S. in spite of everything. Cousin Morris was overseas. Jerome Usdan was held in $5,000 bail, charged with conspiracy to corrupt an Army officer, FBI agents were looking for Samuel and Elias Bayer, wanted on the same charge...