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...Hope, in his native England on a USO tour, dropped into the town of Hitchin for a cozy dish of tea with grandfather James, planned to help him celebrate his 100th birthday next month...
...wisely leaving it to well-manicured civilians to sing sweetly of its lice and mud and torture and death. . . . This present tragedy of history is markedly different from its predecessors. In this war the artist is on the spot. Whatever his previous preoccupation with three plums in a silver dish or three girls in a grassy glade, the artist has now been wrenched out of it by the necessity of recording . . . man's reaction to the greatest crisis of all history. . . . No aggregation of the art of the future can fail to be profoundly altered by the record these...
Zoos have been little affected by the war. Most of the food they need (hay, grain, green vegetables, horse meat) is unrationed. To replace scarce bananas they now serve a sweet potato; instead of Japanese ants, favorite food of many a zoo bird, they dish out a dried New Mexican water bug. Almost no animals have been imported in two years; zoos breed their own, and swap surplus stock. Lions are almost free for the asking...
...played Honolulu and traveled by "banana truck" to the remotest outposts on the island of Oahu. It will soon tour the outlying islands. Meanwhile Evans (who has done no acting) has in rehearsal such Broadway hits as Boy Meets Girl and My Sister Eileen; eventually he may dish up a little Shakespeare. He thinks blank-verse tragedy will be such a novelty for soldiers that they will like it. To back up his hunch, he points to three wow performances of Mac beth at Fort George G. Meade, last year...
...this point Harold Ickes regretfully robs the reader of the book's real climax - an account of his years in the Administration. While still "a member of President Roosevelt's official family," he explains, "it isn't altogether my fault that I cannot season this particular dish with mustard and cayenne pepper and tabasco sauce as you may have expected me to do." Adds he: "Some day I will write a sequel - a bloody one!" Meantime, he heaves a whole hive of hornets at his recent opponents...