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...gallant performance by Army's goalie frustrated the varsity hockey team for most of Saturday evening, but the highflying Crimson managed to prevail, 5 to 1, over the visiting Cadets...
Toland's meticulous investigation provides some fascinating footnotes. Major James Devereux, the gallant U.S. Marine Corps defender of Wake, did not send the famed message: SEND US MORE JAPS. The message was idly tapped out by an unknown signalman. Nor did the U.S.S. Houston sink four Japanese transports off Java's Bantam Bay. They were actually torpedoed in error by the Japanese cruiser Mikuma, Toland reveals. General Imamura assumed that the Houston was responsible, and his chief of staff was too embarrassed to contradict...
...actually director of the New York City Bureau of Alcoholic Therapy, is tough and blunt. "You are not sick," he snarls in Groove One. "You are a flop, a failure, a drunk." But in a companion volume called Tormented Women, the Truth About the Female Alcoholic, he becomes almost gallant, sympathetically acknowledging how difficult it must have been for his listener to buy the record. "You probably said it was for a friend. You couldn't allow even a total stranger-the saleman-to suspect that you, this nice-looking lady, was a lush...
Still, at times, a gallant Broadway cast has a ball among the mothballs. In the role of Mimi Paragon, social director of the S.S. Coronia, Star Elaine Stritch performs comic labors in herding a party of U.S. hicks, stuffy Britons, lushes, lady authors, child horrors and pet dogs (including one named Adlai) through a Mediterranean cruise with stops at Tangiers, Naples and the Parthenon...
Ever the perfect patrician, Peru's President Manuel Prado, 72, descended the planeside steps at Washington's MATS terminal one day last week with the sure and jaunty gait of a boulevardier revisiting a familiar haunt. He gripped President Kennedy's hand, bowed with gallant grace to kiss the gloved hand of Madame la Présidente, Jacqueline. So taken was Jackie that she nearly forgot to present the roses she was carrying to Prado's elegant and equally aristocratic wife, Clorinda. Prado, whose innate courtliness has carried him through ten such state visits around...