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...over-genteel, stagily conceived, dated. But Edmund Gwenn is a competently ghostly steward, Sydney Greenstreet a subtly alarming embodiment of the Last Judgment. And compared with recent bows to the Beyond-a .cheerful Chiclet like A Guy Named Joe, a quiet sniffle over the aspidistras like Happy Land, a jumbo box of mentholated Kleenex like Tender Comrade-this older mixed metaphor of death seems all but inspired...
...Wars. Jumbo began his army career at 18, when he joined the Rifle Brigade and went out to fight the Boers. He ended that campaign a lieutenant, with two medals, and decided to stay in the army. His rise .was gradual and unspectacular until after World War I, in which he won the D.S.O. and promotion to lieutenant colonel. Later he lectured at Sandhurst and the Staff College. Several times it seemed that he might be hurting his career by sticking to infantry commands, but a real break came in 1934, when he took over the Aldershot Brigade, first fully...
...Jumbo was greatly bucked over it. Weeks passed before he found out that the soldiers thought he was telling them about a fabulous pub called "The Golden Fleece" about 300 miles down the road where they would find oceans of beer and tons of dancing girls...
...problems of the Mediterranean Theater Commander Jumbo Wilson can be depended upon to apply his talents and virtues, not the least of which is patience. During the evacuation of Greece he and his staff arrived at a port where a destroyer was to meet them. The ship was nowhere in sight; the Germans were getting closer; the younger officers were pacing nervously. Someone ventured to ask what the General was going to do. Jumbo climbed atop a pile of baggage and settled himself in comfort. Said...
Another front-line fighter from the Fifth who won: professional bantamweight Champion Marshall Higa, Hawaiian-born of Jap parents. (For news of another Hawaiian hero, see ,p. 16.) From General Sir Henry Maitland (";Jumbo") Wilson down, the brassiest hats of the North African Theater were among the 80,000 who saw and cheered the six-day finals. Up to officials in Washington is their proposal: that the eight amateur champions be sent to the U.S. to fight the best amateurs on the home front...