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Mary Chase, Denver author of Broadway's Harvey, explained to visiting Columnist Ward Morehouse how success had changed things: "I used to be a little fonder of people. I had a lot of good friends. . . . I made my biggest mistake in the way I returned here after Harvey was a success. . . . I sneaked in the back door, and didn't give them a chance to be proud...
...Drinkers tend to be a good deal more materialistic and selfish, less loyal to friends, fonder of money (they generally have less...
Britons last week were much fonder of another book about the Blitzkrieg: Their Finest Hour, a collection of reports by TIME'S London Correspondents Walter Graebner and Allan Michie. Their book consists largely of firsthand accounts of men who served at Dunkirk, in the Navy, in the R. A. F., etc. Up to last week 7,000 copies had been sold, the equivalent of a sale of more than...
Perhaps nine out of ten people on either side of the demarcation line want the British to win. The masses of French people believe the British to be their one hope of salvation. The Vichy Government, on the other hand, while no fonder of the Germans than the littlest Frenchman is, believes the Germans are going to win the war. The quicker they win it, the better it will be for France. After that it will be up to France's rulers to make the best possible deal with the Germans...
...nothing are the British fonder than a carefully cultivated anachronism. In Winnipeg the Canadians were proud to produce a quaint ceremony of their own. Before the loopholed gate of old Fort Garry, Governor Patrick Ashley Cooper of the Hudson's Bay Co. paid to the King the rent established when King Charles II granted its charter: "Two elkcs and two Black beavers whensoever and as often as Wee our heires and successors shall happen to enter into the said Countryes Territoryes and Regions hereby granted." The King was willing to relax the requirements, and instead...