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...road is valuable-it links ten deepwater harbors in Texas-but all this enthusiasm was not evoked merely because 46 miles of highway had been moved 23 miles nearer the water. Texans celebrated because they now had a right of way through land previously barred to Texans...
Since the beginning of the present century, historians like Sydney George Fisher, Claude H. Van Tyne, Francis V. Greene, by a process known as making Washington less of a statue and more of a human being, have busily reduced the prodigious figure to something nearer their own size and understanding. They were doing quite nicely when along came Historian John C. Fitzpatrick, by whom, says Knollenberg testily, "their work has been largely undone." So exasperated does Historian Knollenberg become in undoing this undoing that he accuses Historian Fitzpatrick of taking literally a remark of Washington Irving's: "There...
Although we are, technically speaking, as war, conflict with the European Axis powers is doubtful at present. But war with Japan may occur at any moment, because our armed forces are so much nearer to the enemy and because the situation is more delicate...
...Nearer (Frances Langford; Decca). Rodgers & Hart melody-of-the-month, from the film version of their Too Many Girls...
...catchy Rodgers & Hart tune. Summa cum laude in voice is Radio Songstress Frances Langford, crooning Love Never Went to College with feeling. Doe-eyed Lucille Ball gets choicer material in the well-worn I Didn't Know What Time It Was and the new You're Nearer, also gets the affections of Richard Carlson, whose crew haircut makes him the first genuine-looking Princeton undergraduate in cinema history. Ann Miller, Hal LeRoy and a Cuban, Desi Arnaz, a terpsichorean Rudolph Valentino who was in the stage show, make you wish there were more time for dancing; Eddie Bracken...