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...better traitor than terrorist, Major Vidkun Quisling has been a four-star flop as Nazi Gauleiter of the country he betrayed. Tough-fibred Norwegians, though defeated, have refused to be conquered. The Norsemen's passive resistance has included sabotage of power plants, attacks on individual Nazis, stealing any Nazi weapons left unguarded. Secret anti-Nazi organizations have flourished and have smuggled in money from sympathetic Sweden, arms from Britain...
Lampy drew in its horns in a hurry last night and begged forgiveness for its most recent misdeed--calling Leila Ernst the biggest movie flop of 1940--when confronted with the irate objections of a certain mysterious "Frederick Ernst" 'who claimed, via telephone, to be the girl's father...
...think my daughter is a flop as an actress," came "Mr. Ernst's" rejoinder...
...Year Stalin got half of Poland by a shrewd deal and a free hand to work his will on Finland. But 1940 did not fall like a plum into the lap of the Dictators. One of them, Benito Mussolini, thinking conquest was easy, proved the year's greatest flop. Another, Joseph Stalin, lost several teeth before he chewed off an edge of tough little Finland. A third, Adolf Hitler, was more successful...
...Richard Mansfield, Maude Adams, Henry Miller, many another illustrious name. Though Uncle Dan retired from active producing in 1911, he remained a shrewd, vigorous Broadway counselor and leader, on first nights descending from his penthouse above the Lyceum Theatre to call the invariable turn on a hit or a flop...