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Correspondent Clifford readily admitted that the cocksure, prissy, teetotaling Field Marshal was not always popular. "The older Desert veterans, in particular, resented him. . . . He is not a good mixer-he can't slap backs and drink with the boys and tell dirty stories." About his staff, says Clifford, there was "an atmosphere of amateurishness, almost of school-boyishness. ... Some of them ... looked as though they were certainly playboys in private life. Others were surprisingly youthful Fellows of Universities. . . . But the proof ... is in the battle. . . . The important thing is to avoid arguing that the General and his staff...
Today the bigwig of be-bop is a scat named Harry ("The Hipster") Gibson, who in moments of supreme pianistic ecstasy throws his feet on the keyboard. No. 2 man is Bulee ("Slim") Gaillard, a skyscraping, zooty Negro guitarist. Gibson & Gaillard have recorded such hep numbers as Cement Mixer, which has sold more than 20,000 discs in Los Angeles alone; Yop Rock Heresay, Dreisix Cents and Who Put the Benzedrine in Mrs. Murphy's Ovaltine? Sample lyrics...
...your dreams were like. . . . They were as American as apple pie . . . the crunch of a hot dog when you walk on it on a cold day . . . the smack of a wet cigar when it hits you across the face . . . the rattle of cement when you're in the mixer ... the cry 'Play ball...
Last week they found their man, balding, able Samuel Dillon Jackson, 50, ex-Senator (for ten months) from Indiana. An infantry captain in World War I, he has a small city background of church elder and 33rd-degree Mason. A good mixer and orator, he likes to "pull the cork up in their throats at least once...
Stalin's prose, at least in translation, commonly gives the impression of having been distilled in a concrete mixer. But it is easy to understand how his dogged reiteration that victory was sure shored up Russian morale during the darkest days...