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...Chungking closed last week in deafening silence. For a day and a half Lord Louis Mountbatten, Allied Commander in Southeast Asia, had talked with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his wife, with top Chinese generals, with U.S. Lieut. Generals Joseph Stilwell and Brehon Somervell. Then, looking tired, with crow's-feet showing at the corners of his eyes, Lord Louis hurried back to India...
...Duffy's star, rumpled Ed Gardner, and cooed: "Hello, darling." Once, when the audience guffawed at a Gardner quip, the petulant bird fixed a baleful eye on the customers and shouted: "Quiet!" It brought down the house. On Fred Allen's program last spring Raffles, who is crow-size, flew away with the show by the simple expedient of soaring up to the balcony, banking gracefully back toward the stage and coming in on the orchestra leader's head...
Merely for a Negro to be able to play Othello on Broadway, Robeson feels, has justified his decision. In terms of morale, its almost as if they abolished Jim Crow in the Army." For him, it is "killing two birds with one stone-I'm acting and I'm talking for Negroes in the way only Shakespeare can." He will play it as long as possible, all over the country (except in the South) even though his $1,500-a-week salary is a fraction of what he can earn singing...
...head. Coatless, wearing a white shirt and plaid tie, he leaned back in his swivel chair and waited for some 80 reporters to shuffle into a semicircle before his cluttered desk. The familiar signal flags of weariness were up-an air of fatigued abstraction, a dark web of crow's-feet about his eyes, a deep etching of lines in the loose, sand-grey skin of his face...
...short story. Pegler went off halfcocked. Four days later he publicly ate crow...