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Proud "Kept Man" Sirs: I liked your story (TIME, June 26) dealing with the President's Great Blueprint for the brave new world. You were quite right in saying that my denunciation of Mr. Roosevelt's Magna Carta for permanent peace was loud, and it will be louder as time goes...
Friends. Then I heard them more clearly. Never has a Middle Western accent sounded better. I called a little louder. Quietly Sergeant Auge, a fellow I knew, crept out of the hedge, tugged at the branches and with his pigsticker cut my suspension cords. I dropped like an overripe pear...
...British took this latest war difficulty calmly, as they had taken many a worse one. With patient approval they noted other signs, noted that the roar of heavy bombers sailing south over London had never sounded louder, that the convoys of army trucks rumbling through city streets and village lanes were growing longer, that there were fewer soldiers on furlough, more in battle dress...
Although swank establishments like Manhattan's Stork Club were self-consciously unaffected, the real or fancied complaints of what the month-old tax was doing to the nation's cabarets last week swelled louder than a chorus of hot brasses. The American Guild of Variety Artists estimated that jobless entertainers would soon number 15,000. No one expected Washington to lose much sleep over this; the War Manpower Commission has been trying for months to force such nonessential workers into war plants...
...greatest pleasure I know," he once said, "is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out-by accident." He protected his thin skin by constantly laughing at himself. When his first produced play, Mr. H-, flopped, Lamb was found in the front row hissing louder than anyone else...