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...three days in secret last week French Senators peppered dapper new Premier Paul Reynaud about Allied conduct of the war. Then they let the public in and gave the Premier a big cheer. Dry old President of the Senate Jules Jeanneney said M. Reynaud had "fully satisfied the Senate." Cried Senator James (Three-Star) Hennessy: "It seems to me we can thank the Government for the masterly way in which it has answered the questions of our committees...
...hand for the celebration was the chief character of the Barn Dance, spry, crackly-voiced, cotton-chin-whiskered Uncle Ezra (dapper little Pat Barrett, 52), who greets the audience with "Howdy, evvabuddy," warms evvabuddy's heart with his cracker-barrel philosophy. Uncle Ezra was in Hollywood, to play in Bob Burns's forthcoming Comin' 'Round the Mountain. So Widow Winnie Whipple, whose ineffectual attempts to land Uncle Ezra furnish continuity of a sort for the program, exclaimed "Hollywood my left hind foot!" and wept that he should turn out to be "nothin...
...auditorium of the Geographical Institute where a militaristic French movie and a super-patriotic news reel--both entertaining after a fashion--had been shown. Through the doors poured dual streams of middle-aged Cambridge matrons, Mutt-and--Jeff pairs of Radcliffe girls, a sprinkling of Brattle Street subdebs, some dapper, be-mustached French instructors, and a handful of Harvard men. The latter seemed like some of Thurber's male animals in a war between the sexes. In the lobby the matrons were efficiently shunted past a line of tables where the essentials for knitting woollies for les types were hawked...
...election as circuit judge in Klamath Falls, Ore. is none other than Henry Ashurst's brother, Edward Bates Ashurst. Slight, dapper Judge Ashurst first got elected to the bench in 1934, tried vainly in 1937 to join his brother in the U. S. Senate. He continued to ornament Klamath Falls with his ten-gallon hats, his string ties, sideburns, frock coats, morning trousers, and the fanciest flow of language west of Henry Fountain Ashurst...
...effect, Mr. Chamberlain had invited his Cabinet to get up and march around the room while he stood one chair in the corner. When they sat down again, six had new chairs, there were two new players, and one was out of the game. In new chairs were: > Dapper, round-bellied Sir Kingsley ("Cherub") Wood, 58, who as Air Secretary had been more & more criticized for letting Britain continue to lag behind Germany in production of planes and training of pilots. Both press and House of Commons have been down on him for his secrecy about R. A. F. exploits...