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Sergeant Marion (See Here, Private) Hargrove, whose best-selling book made him perhaps the richest alumnus of Yank, signed up for a lecture tour, plans to write another book. Cartoonist George Baker's crude, snafued Sad Sack, who had been syndicated to 60 civilian newspapers, was about to become a civilian himself. Some of the Yanks and their neighbors on the daily Stars & Stripes were getting together on a new magazine, to be named Salute-a word presumably unpleasing to a G.I. ear. Among the Saluters: Cartoonist Bill ("Up Front") Mauldin, New Yorker Staffman Walter Bernstein, Playwright Irwin Shaw...
...this unrest was not without its good side. The "Huks" were violent, crude and openly headed for Communism, but the uneasiness their strong talk generated had dissolved the atmosphere of lethargic resignation in which Manuel Quezon had performed his hypnotic political legerdemain. In Washington last week aging President Sergio Osmena asked the U.S. to hold a Philippine election before April...
Most promising spot is a triangular region between Lakes Van, Goktcha and Urmia. Here wild wheat still grows. Small rivers run down from the hills, their narrow floodplains easy to till with crude farm tools. The valleys of the Nile and Tigris were too big and difficult for man's first feeble efforts...
...esthetic followers of "art for art's sake," Henley's boisterous, often crude vitality seemed both stupid and frightening. Esthete Aubrey Beardsley was so terrified by his first glimpse of the "pirate" that he turned and ran for his life. Arch-esthete Oscar Wilde was made of sterner stuff. In a scathing review of Henley's hospital poems (whose occasional beauties, said Oscar, were "very refreshing [bits] of affectation in a volume where there is so much that is natural"), he opened a running fight with Henley that lasted nearly 20 years. The fight ended indecisively...
Deep Are the Roots (by Arnaud d'Usseau & James Gow; produced by Kermit Bloomgarden & Ge"brge Heller) is a bad play that is yet worth seeing. Artistically it is crude; psychologically quite false. But as melodrama it proves lively theater, as social drama it provokes thought; and the production has much of the skill that is wanting in the play...