Word: goings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George VI was feeling better, too. This week he and Queen Elizabeth planned to go down to their place at Sandringham, hoping that the country air would be good for his ailing...
...triumphal procession. They range from the slow torching of So in Love Am I to the fast jive of Too Darn Hot, from the musical brio of We Open in Venice to the verbal lift of Always True to You (In My Fashion). And again & again melody and mockery go hand in hand-nowhere better than in Wunderbar, a charming bit of schmalz-and a devilish parody...
...Eleanor Roosevelt. In her question & answer column in the Ladies' Home Journal, she was asked why her "big, strong American sons" didn't horsewhip Westbrook Pegler. Mrs. Roosevelt's reply: "Why should they bother to horsewhip a poor little creature like Westbrook Pegler? They would probably go to jail for attacking someone who was physically older and perhaps unable to defend himself. After all, he is such a little gnat on the horizon...
Sleeping Field. Last week his Country Flavor Editorial Service sent out a quiet piece that illustrated what he meant. Wrote Pearson: "Go to an open ridge on a sunny, crisp January afternoon when the snow blanket is deep and drink of the beauty on white hills. Earth lies patiently sleeping . . . Above walls and fences sumacs hold scraggly arms with faded, brown-flame candles . . . Winter birds call from the groves; regal cock pheasants stalk along the hedgerows with their meek ladies. This is the heart of winter . . . but in the tightly wrapped buds is assurance of the Great Promise...
...rude blow from Washington filled the air with lamentations, explanations and evasions. An Internal Revenue Bureau spokesman unofficially explained the apparent reversal of the earlier ruling by pointing out that the Amos 'n' Andy transaction was a transfer of real property, since the show presumably could go on forever, even after the death of its originators (Charles Correll & Freeman Gosden). But the Jack Benny Show, without Benny, would undoubtedly collapse; therefore, Benny's personal services, rather than his real property, are involved...