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Captain Joe Gardella and Loren MacKinney are still two big question marks in the Crimson lineup. Each will see action. but no one can safely say just how much it will be in either case. Offhand, Gardella's status seems a bit more favorable than MacKinney's. Gardella is slightly better than an even choice to start the game, while MacKinney is sightly less than than an even bet to start...
...master of ceremonies for Lux Radio Theatre, De Mille is sometimes absentminded. Near season's end last year, he announced that the next Lux bill would be "Sidewalks of New York," his offhand reading of the script's Sidewalks of London. He rarely misses a performance. Once when he was ill he had himself conveyed to the theatre in an ambulance, did his bit from a stretcher with a hospital intern and nurse looking...
...said that he did so only at Mr. Stimson's instance, then actually invited Louis Johnson, who could not work under Mr. Stimson, to work over him as a Presidential assistant ("my eyes and ears . . . reporting to me on the continuing progress of the entire national defense program"). Offhand, it did not look as if there were a spot where aggressive Mr. Johnson's talents would be of less use, or where his equal talent for getting in other people's hair would wreak greater havoc with the Defense program...
William Henry Jackson, dean of U. S. photographers (TIME, April 15), was born in 1843, two years before Texas joined the Union, now lives in Manhattan. Last week, in a simple, chatty, offhand chronicle, he told what he had done with all that time. His earliest recollection (age 4) is hating Mexican General Santa Anna. At 19, Jackson joined the Union Army, spent a quiet year guarding Washington, three quiet days guarding box cars at Gettysburg during the battle. He later voted for Abraham Lincoln (Term...
...nearer sniff. His small 16th floor suite at a corridor's end in the Benjamin Franklin hotel became a crazy-house, a stifling welter of political amateurs and well-wishers (bond salesmen, debutantes, business bigwigs), gawkers (clubwomen, tourists, thrill-collectors), and disgusted professionals, indignant at their offhand treatment by people who had never heard of them and who even now regarded politicos as casual, unimportant, irrelevant vermin...