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Military Career: Joined the French army under the mandate, educated at France's famed St. Cyr. Promoted by the Vichy French to command of the Lebanese battalion of the French Army of the Levant, he was named chief of independent Lebanon's new army in 1945, has built it into a compact, disciplined force under firm control...
...Oscar Levant, an ounce of attention is worth a pound of cure-and he was getting lots of attention last week...
...eventful fortnight, Levant was negotiating with both CBS and NBC to go transcontinentally berserk on network next fall; he was also ranting affably with moviemakers interested in producing his screen biography. Of the recent turns in his labyrinthine career, Oscar offered a candid self-appraisal: "In some situations I was difficult, in odd moments impossible, in rare moments loathsome, but, at my best, unapproachably great...
...OSCAR LEVANT...
Fallen Heart. The Oscar Levant Show repels some people and delights most. Drawing on his motley acquaintance, Levant has corralled both name stars and intellectuals as his guests. Eddie Cantor was followed by Christopher Isherwood, Adolphe Menjou by Aldous Huxley, Red Skelton by Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas. His subjects run the gamut from highly intellectual topics to brutal digs. Isherwood told him: "You are like a Dostoevsky character-completely unmasked at all times...