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Last week, in the wake of the British Government's White Paper ("Statistics Relating to the War Effort of the United Kingdom"; TIME, Dec. 11), Gubbins published a White Paper of his own: "Statistics Relating to the War Effort of N. Gubbins, Esq., his Life Partner, Sally the Cat, and Six Hens at The Nest." Excerpts...
...addition to this N. Gubbins, Esq., spent four and a half years in the Home Guard, crawling about on his stomach in summer dust and winter snow, learning the parts of machine guns and learning how to fire rockets at enemy aircraft. . . . He thinks it is [now] safe to say that he still knows very little about either...
...noted here that apart from all the other hardships endured by women in this war the small humiliations of shopping have been the most difficult to bear. N. Gubbins, Esq. can remember a day when his life partner smiled up into the face of a butcher and begged for a bone to make some soup. When he replied : 'I believe you had a bone a fortnight ago. There are other people who want bones besides you,' there were murmurs of approval from other women in the shop and the life partner of N. Gubbins, Esq., retired in confusion...
...American Romance (MGM) is a $3,000,000,151-minute, Technicolor "epic" of the U.S'. steel industry. Producer-Director King Vidor, one of Hollywood's abler craftsmen (The Big Parade, H.M. Pulham, Esq.) and most earnest innovators (Hallelujah, Our Daily Bread), took fire 18 years ago with the idea of filming a U.S. history in terms of steel. He eventually ignited Louis B. Mayer, too. But the resulting conflagration is a one-alarm blaze, at best...
...Accra, one Adumua, Esq., a candidate for the local town council, bought space in the African Spokesman, modestly catalogued (in the third person) his qualifications for office...