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...title is the G.I.'s final word of advice to his chubby war-time friend, Peppino, a seven year old short-hauler who owns a donkey. The story is Paul Gallico's now well-known tale of how a humble son of Assisi got to see the Pope and saved his donkey...
Letting the sobs fall where they may, misty-eyed Author Gallico (who now lives in England) seems to be trying to explain why so many G.I.s enthused over, and sometimes married European women. Jerry's Long Island fiancee "combined such perfection of physical beauty, flawlessness of character, uprightness, and unapproachable purity that it was difficult for him to regard her as human." What Jerry liked about WAAF Patches, on the other hand, was not only her attitude about sex but "her silences and her presence, because they were soothing. The thing was, with a little mouse like that...
Since Jerry's fiancee never walks on stage, readers get no great chance to weigh the matter for themselves. They will have to take Author Gallico's sentimental word for it that a plain Patches in R.A.F. blue is preferable to a Long Island girl in a camel's-hair coat, any old day. On the basis of advance orders for The Lonely from U.S. bookdealers, the publishing trade confidently expects that U.S. women will be falling all over themselves this fall to buy the book, and find out why in the world Gallico thinks so. Male...
...Hearst's Journal-American Paul Gallico wound himself up and let himself go: "Home was the Home Run King . . . For this was what Ruth was king and master of -the stroke that led to home. All men are ever turning homeward. The very baseball phrase-'Home Run'-has a music of its own . . ." On the sport page, Bill Corum told how he had known for some time that "the Great Umpire had his thumb pressed against 'strike three' on the final and inescapable indicator." And Sport Editor Jimmy Powers, a more literary fellow, quoted John...
...Paul Gallico. 4. Damon Runyon...