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...Noel Coward, 43, tireless jack-of-all theater, sang his newest number over...
...quinqueremes, quadriremes and triremes, had reached the promontory of Pachynus at the southeast corner of Sicily, only to turn back at sight of 100 Roman galleys standing out from Syracusae (TIME, Ides of Maius, 211 B.C.). Bomilcar said the wind had been against him. His fellow Carthaginians knew the coward had lost the last chance to break the flow of Roman strength where Scylla & Charybdis guard the narrow straits between Messana and Rhegium on the mainland...
...World War I that Edsel first learned what it was going to mean to live within the Ford legend. Deeply opposed to war, Henry insisted that Edsel be deferred from the draft as one of the company's key men. Edsel was condemned as a "slacker" and "coward." Silently, Edsel shouldered his share of managing the company, knowing that the bitter storm was puffed up by Republican politicians. The deferment was justified. But this was Edsel's first experience in the storms which swirled about his father. The next williwaw came in 1919, when Henry Ford rowed bitterly...
Blithe Spirit. Noel Coward's gay farce of a first wife's ghost cooking a second wife's goose (TIME...
...from 1919 to 1939, it tells the sometimes drab story of the durable Gibbons family, their births, marriages, deaths, their small joys and fair-sized sorrows. Rich in accurate observation, and at moments funny, it is lean on drama and lacking in depth. No British Chekhov or even Odets, Coward has the wish to be a serious dramatist without the wherewithal. A born sophisticate, he is at ease on figure skates, but slightly awkward in the average man's shoes...