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...Very Young Man); of cancer, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Her emphasis on the sound, rather than the" sense, of words influenced many a writer. She considered herself the No. 1 figure in contemporary letters, was not shaken by Clifton Fadiman's snug phrase, "the Mamma of Dada." Her parting shot, on leaving the U.S. in 1935 (with her longtime secretary-companion, Alice B. Toklas): "I won't be sorry to come back when I do come back if I do come back." In France many a G.I. got to know Gertrude Stein, stirred anew her interest...
...Portuguese retainer was trying to encourage a kitchen fire with damp wood when the little family arrived. The children goggled at the medieval stove, whimpered and wept. (Maria had forgotten her pet poodle and a friend in Lisbon had given her a strange setter; Mamma had forgotten her passport, but that had been taken care of, too.) There was no central heating or electricity-Bella Vista hadn't been occupied for 100 years, save for a brief stay in 1942 by Dom Duarte, pretender of the House of Braganza. At nightfall, kerosene lamps cast shadows of the spindly Empire...
From your explanation of "Mamma's Boy" Draft [TIME, May 27], one gets the idea that, with the Army losing 55,000 a month by the discharge route, and receiving 25,000 replacements, the brass hats won't have enough soldiers "by year...
However bad the situation in May, it would be far worse in June. With rare exceptions, selective service boards had relied heavily upon teen-agers to fill their quotas. By exempting this class from the "mamma's boy" draft, the House (with unwilling Senate concurrence) had made it an almost draftless draft. The President's order that the boards resume drafting single men between 25 and 30 would produce only about 15,000 eligibles...
...Wise Child. In Springfield, Mass., Mrs. Rose Laskowski's children studied the news picture of a bride, spotted Mamma. Papa had her arrested for bigamy at honeymoon...