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...thing on the lot except Leo the Growl and Louis B. Mayer. Most conspicuous ingredients are Ginny Simms, George Murphy, Charles Winninger, Gloria De Haven, Lena Home, Hazel Scott, Rochester, Tommy Dorsey. The show lasts just a quarter short of two hours, so there is plenty of time to doze between the best moments. There are also a great many tunes, of which the best remains the 1939 All the Things You Are, as Ginny Simms sings it. Admirers of Lena Home will get a lithe eyeful during a dance which combines conga and boogie-woogie mannerisms. One comic line...
...Village green containing a cricket pitch with trees for the faithful to doze under during cricket matches...
...longer does he doze in the sun, waiting for his bombers' return and planning where next to hit the Japs. Most of the administrative detail is in the hands of neat-minded, hard-working Brigadier General Edgar Glenn, Chief of Staff, an old friend who once (in 1922) served with Lieut. Chennault under one Major Spaatz, now Lieut. General "Tooey" Spaatz of the Mediterranean...
Suddenly the slumbering Senate Committee on Foreign Relations lurched out of its doze. Fortnight ago its Chairman, Tom Connally, a minor statesman from Texas, announced that the Committee would do nothing about the Fulbright Resolution or any other postwar resolution. But energetic Senator Joseph Ball, of B 2 H 2 ,* now threatened: unless the Committee acted in "a reasonable time" (say, 30 days), he would force a showdown by tacking that Resolution on to some bill. Newspapers hammered away at the Committee, and Committee members found stacks of angry letters on their desks. Franklin Roosevelt, who shows no desire...
...Rest twice a day; doze at every opportunity; quit work at 3:30 or 4; take frequent but not long vacations...