Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Joseph Guttoveggio. He was born on Manhattan's lower East Side. When he was eight, his father thought Joseph had the makings of a concert pianist, bought him an old piano for $10. Joseph never became a top-flight pianist, but for ten years he practiced like mad, spent his spare time composing little piano pieces...
...will get its final test. If the Swedes refuse and Germany attacks Sweden, then, and only then, will Sweden go to war. The Swedes say that they will refuse further concessions and if the refusal means war, Ja Visst is all right with them. A stubborn neutral is getting mad...
From then on, hatred for the President drove Lewis steadily Right. More important, he grew steadily more isolationist. He opposed the Roosevelt foreign policy. He played ball with the Communists who were then sabotaging the defense effort. He drove back into the Republican party. In 1942, mad with rage at his lifelong friend, Phil Murray, and intent on being the big boss wherever he was, he marched the miners out of C.I.O. entirely...
WINTER'S TALES-Isak Dinesen-Random House ($2.50). Eleven simple stories about weird people (Sample: "Of a girl, perverse and perhaps a little mad, who ran after the gypsies and found relief in witnessing a decapitation"), with settings in Scandinavia, Persia, Belgium, Paris, etc. Admirers of Author Dinesen's Seven Gothic Tales (TIME, April 9, 1934) will snatch at this; others may find her highly feminine, stylized prose a little overrich. One of the Book-of-the-Month Club's dual selections for June...
...Mateur, Bizerte. One criticism made of U.S. troops is that they do not begin to fight their best until they get mad. If that is true, what happened to the 9th Division at El Guettar and to the 34th at Fondouk (or perhaps what was said about them) made them first-class divisions. The history of the last three weeks of the Tunisian campaign, of Hill 609 and Mateur and Bizerte, is too fresh to need repeating, but these facts should not be forgotten...