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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long list of stars must take a back seat to Paramount's latest find, though Ed Gardner's many fans could have told us years ago about this new-found "Maggotism, personal maggotism." This modern Malaprop steals the show with his classic but chering of the King's English, and his latest crack about Duffy and his money--"That guy, if he can't take it with him to Heaven, positively won't go!"--more than atones for the rest of the ordeal...
...first-line ships list-battleships, carriers, cruisers, destroyers, destroyer escorts and submarines-represented 496,994 tons, or 46% of the Navy's combat force at the time of Pearl Harbor. The great majority (144) of the supporting vessels lost were bow-ramp landing ships and craft which did not exist, except in blueprint, when the first bombs fell...
...list contained no major surprises: all but the small vessels had been identified before hostilities ended. One minor surprise: the minesweeper Crow was sunk in Puget Sound in 1943 by "air attack" -a nonexplosive torpedo dropped by a U.S. training bomber sent the 97-ton craft to the bottom...
...list of those indicted was a Nazi Who's Who: former Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess, Air Minister Hermann Göring, Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, Labor Boss Robert Ley, Nazi Philosopher-in-Chief Alfred Rosenberg, and many another. Missing were Adolf Hitler (supposedly dead), Joseph Goebbels (reported dead), Heinrich Himmler (dead), and elusive Martin Bormann, one of Hitler's closest aides. On the assumption that Bormann was still on the loose, although he was supposed to have died with the Führer, military police were still searching for him all over Europe...
...Helm confessed she was "scared to death." First off, she said that Mrs. Truman would not hold peace time receptions and dinners this winter ("inappropriate at present - these are sad times for many people who have suffered war losses"). Then, running down the First Lady's social list, she announced that Mrs. Truman would attend a tea on Oct. 12 given by the Daughters of the American Revolution. In 1939 Mrs. Roosevelt had quit the D.A.R. because it refused to let Negro Contralto Marian Anderson sing in the Society's Constitution Hall; now the D.A.R. was embroiled...