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Senator Claude Benson Pepper of Florida, who looks like a backwoods Noel Coward, is a zealous supporter of the President, and enjoys the confidences of some White House Janizaries. For that reason, what young Senator Pepper did and said last week had a special significance. First, he proposed to the Senate that the U. S. sell its Army and Navy planes to the Allies (when in the President's judgment these sales do not imperil U. S. defense). The proposal was shelved by a Foreign Relations Committee vote of twelve to one. Mr. Pepper voting alone...
...speeches, guaranteed to be brief, will be given at the special ceremony by Harvey D. Gibson, of Bowdoin, chairman of the World's Fair; Stephen F. Voorhies, president of the Princeton Club of New York; Thomas coward, president of the Yale Club of New York; and Frederick Roy Martin, president of the local Harvard Club...
Playwright Noel Coward, visiting the U. S. for the first time since the war began, divulged his formula for enduring during air raids: "When the warning sounds I gather up some pillows, a pack of cards and a bottle of gin, tuck myself beneath the stairs and do very nicely with the consolations of a drink and solitaire until 'All Clear' sounds...
Reigning London playwright, who has put even Noel Coward's eye out, is 34-year-old Welshman Emlyn Williams, known in the U. S. chiefly for his murder play, Night Must Fall. Son of a Welsh miner, Williams did not speak English till he was eight, did not see a professional show till he was 19. Playing in London are his autobiographical The Corn Is Green, packing them in after 600 performances, and The Light of Heart, story of a drunken, down-at-heel actor who gets his last chance to stage a comeback in a myth ical Charles...
...warship Admiral Graffs Bey ought to have fought till the end. If one of us is attacked he must fight till he is killed. It is disgraceful to run away or to kill oneself. Graffs Bey is a coward. Wallah! How do warships fight? Do they knock down one another or simply jump over one another...