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Author Paul also has lively and knowing accounts of the local Reds (Pierre Vautier became a devout Communist), and of Le Panier Fleuri, its personnel and practices. Interspersed are bright observations on French art, cooking, music, writers, women and politics...
...Leaving Moscow was high-domed, bespectacled Sir Stafford Cripps, 52, able leftist lawyer. When he was expelled from the Labor Party in 1939 for trying to form a united front with Liberals and Communists, it was said "the Party has blown its brains out." A vegetarian and devout non-Church Christian, often called "Christ and Carrots" by his friends, Sir Stafford has long believed in a possible British-Russian alliance, worked hard maintaining even relations during the Soviet-German Pact. Last week he was widely mentioned for a high post in the Churchill Cabinet...
Rudy Vallee's devout theme song, My Time Is Your Time, went back on the air last week after ten months off. So, for a lot of other programs, did a lot of other tunes whose rights are held by the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers. ASCAP and the two big networks, NBC and CBS, had finally ended their bitter tiff, signed on the dotted line...
...Dwyer, personally no Tammanyite, opened his campaign, like a devout boxer who crosses himself before the bell rings, by formally disowning Tammany (see col. j). Unfortunately all his powerful friends looked like Tammany to many a New York City voter: Alfred E. Smith, Bosses Ed Flynn and Frank Kelly, Jim Farley, Christy Sullivan (the nominal Tammany leader). Certainly Tammany considered O'Dwyer its candidate. O'Dwyer tried to take the war issue out of the campaign by seconding the President's foreign policy. But to his ranks flocked Coughlinites, Bundsters, Isolationists, America-Firsters, anti-Semites, Roosevelt-haters...
Surgeon General Thomas Parran, a devout Catholic, believes that the only solution to the problem is for soldiers to remain continent. He would like to see pretty girls hired for recreation jobs in Army camps, for he thinks that soldiers are starved for companionship...