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...this indoor sport continued. His Majesty's puzzled Poet Laureate, famed John Masefield, whose yearly stipend is ?127 ($508), kept mum as a Cornish oyster, but Mrs. Masefield admitted: "My husband has been approached on the subject, and the quotation in his opinion is the work of a modern poet writing in Biblical style. From the style he thought it might possibly be written by G. K. Chesterton. He went to considerable trouble to try to trace the words, but without success." Sir Edward Denison Ross, the eminent British expert on Oriental literature, guessed that the words must come...
...press was exasperated when after being allowed to watch the debarkation under oath to keep mum for 48 hours, it heard First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill broadcast, 36 hours before the press deadline: ". . . And I can also tell you that yesterday the leading division of the Canadian Army . . . disembarked safely and smoothly...
...English theatre knows which side its war bread is buttered on: the bright side. But it doesn't keep mum about the war; it kids it. It makes air-raid shelters and blackouts as good for laughs as mothers-in-law and pratt falls. In the opening number of Lights Up, a new Charles Cochran revue which has struck gold in the provinces and is soon to open in London, chorines wear brassieres resembling ration cards, and preserve their modesty by dangling gas-mask containers...
Professorial, omni-opinionated Walter Boughton Pitkin, author, at 54, of Life Begins at Forty (1932), was a "guest expert" on Canada Dry's Information Please program, sat clam-mum throughout the entire half-hour quiz. Afterwards, he explained apologetically why he had not opened his mouth: he is hard of hearing, heard not a single question...
...public. It had always been assumed that the Philadelphia Museum of Art would get it. But this autumn the art world has buzzed with a rumor that the Widener art would go instead to the Mellon-endowed National Gallery of Art, now abuilding in Washington. Joe Widener has kept mum...