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John Albert Carroll, 45,husky, humorless, handsome ex-Denver policeman, who was one of the few Democrats in the nation to oust an incumbent Republican (red-faced Dean Gillespie). An ardent New Dealer, Carroll went to night school for six years to be admitted to the Colo rado bar, became Denver district attorney and an A.M.G. major in Italy...
What Every Woman Knows still has pleasant and amusing scenes along with irritating ones and a few the moths have been at. Last week's production suffered most from the inadequate, unwinning Maggie of Hollywood's June Duprez, gained most from the keenly humorless John Shand of Richard Waring...
...season its heavy fare of discussions, digests and editorials, there will be dashes of humor and satire, columns with titles like The Little Dog Laughed and Poor Adam's Almanack. "In short," says Clarence Streit, "Freedom & Union will be neither a timid, pallid neutral nor a narrow, humorless zealot." But it will try to count for something among "influential English-reading people" the world over...
Belgrade intellectuals jeer that Tito heads a government of hillbillies, because the new civil service (carefully purged of nonCommunists) includes many a Partisan who can barely read & write. Actually, the Government is well-stocked with Communist theoreticians. Tito's chief adviser is meticulous, humorless Vice Premier Edvard Kardelj, 36, a former schoolmaster with a Goebbels limp and a Molotov mustache, who spent six years in Yugoslav prisons for writing Communist pamphlets. Later, he fled to Russia where he headed Odessa's Revolutionary School for the Balkans. Currently he writes most of Tito's prolific legislation and heads...
Harvardmen of less recent vintage would have found the product less strange for the Crimson of April and May '46 has maintained, with the exception of a change in type face here and there, a remarkable resemblance to its rambling, liberal-minded, earnest--but not humorless--pre-war progenitor...