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After a while Eleanor Roosevelt walked back through a wide opening in the hedge. She stood alone, silently watching the workmen shoveling soil into her husband's grave. Then, silent and alone, she walked away again. On her black dress she wore the small pearl Fleur-de-Lis which he had given her as a wedding present...
This continuous alert against attacks from other services has been shared by Holland Smith. He is so Marine-minded that he has been known to argue against hidebound Navy thinking with his blonde, six-footer only son John Victor (Annapo lis '34), until recently a destroyer commander in the Mediterranean, now aide to Admiral Leahy...
...theater is that it's for the most part too shopworn. The bright comedy moments and briefly vivid scenes are swallowed up in the pat speeches, dime-a-dozen situations, stagey gestures, footlight heroics. Playwright Williams has let his memories of a hundred bad plays blot out lis memories...
...Totem Pole last week turned columnist. H(arry) Allen Wolfgang Smith, 33, who went to work at 16 on the Huntington (Ind.) Press, made lis name working for U.P. and the New York World-Telegram with such gems as a story of a nudist camp (written stark naked on the scene), weather reports ("WEATHER NOTE: Bad for grandmothers"), an interview with Simone Simon. (Without a word he tickled her vigorously. When she protested but did not squeal, he said he was only testing a Hollywood report that she was ticklish.) His book, Low Man on a Totem Pole, based chiefly...
...last they came to Benny. He read his speech, with a crack for all comedians present. and an introduction for each of lis assistants (for his famed Negro valet: 'Next week I start Charley's Aunt, and ;hat's one picture Rochester won't steal; he won't be in it."). When the party finished, it was 4 a.m., everybody was right, and they all went home. NBC was proud of its show for Showman Benny. It should have been: the blowout alone cost over...