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Word comes of a wonderful new poisonous shrapnel. Britain's General Douglas Haig is introduced. He orders suicidal advances, losing 1,320,000 men. The general prays to God: "I ask thee for victory before the Americans arrive." A pretty lady sings Keep the Home Fires Burning...
...Britain's giant Distillers Company Ltd. was at a crossroads. Its sales of industrial chemicals were sagging, but its whisky sales (Vat 69, Johnnie Walker,, Haig & Haig, Black & White) were soaring. Deciding not to fight the trend, the company last week chose as its new chairman an old-line whisky man, Ronald S. Gumming, 62, a spirited Scot whose great-grandfather founded the Cardow Distillery, which later was absorbed by Johnnie Walker. Gumming, an army officer in both world wars, became a Distillers director in 1946, has been a major force in Britain's drive to export more...
...they are led by donkeys." So they were, as Historian Clark proves in this horrifying account of the early months of World War I. His charges, proved beyond doubt by huge and sickening casualty lists, are that the British commanders-notably Field Marshal Sir John French and General Douglas Haig-overrated the cavalry charge, underrated the machine gun, and stubbornly refused to change outmoded tactics. Clark calls French and Haig mass murderers, and few who read his book will contest the judgment...
...Shirley Temple Show (NBC, 7-8 p.m.). Rudyard Kipling's Kim with Michael Rennie as Captain Creighton and Tony Haig...
...steel strike resumes, Labor Secretary Mitchell reconsiders his prediction that '60 will be "better than '59" and clandestinely orders a hat-shaped bottle of Haig & Haig to drink on the Capitol steps. From University Hall comes news that a rhinoceros has been appointed to the vacant Geography professorship. "It costs relatively little to feed," Dean Bundy explains, "and we can use the money saved elsewhere." To relieve exam period monotony, the Lampoon parodies the Wall Street Journal. The Journal returns with a parody of the Lampoon. The Lampoon parodies the parody. The Journal parodies the parody parody. The Lampoon asks...