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...Cook, 52 and suffering from Parkinson's disease, a form of paralysis which has crippled his left hand, retired from the stage after 35 years of chatty clowning, juggling, prestidigitation, acrobatics. Born Joseph Lopez, orphaned son of a Spanish father, Irish mother, at 17 the kewpie-faced "one-man vaudeville show" announced his arrival on Broadway in a full-page ad in Variety; last week he said farewell the same...
...importance of a unified command has been demonstrated positively by the Germans, negatively by the British. While the Nazis have moved their forces into battle under one-man control with a minimum of departmental confusion, the Brit ish have been hindered by all kinds of wasted motion, brought on by lack of unity among top-ranking admirals, generals and R.A.F. commanders. At Crete and during the first battle of Libya, there was singularly little coordination of command be tween air, army and naval forces. More recently, in the Far East, the British lack of unified command was demonstrated when...
When, five years ago, Manhattan's Macbeth Gallery gave him his first big metropolitan one-man show, critics were surprised by such old-worldly gusto in a young U.S. painter. But they had to admit that Jon Corbino was not afraid of big subjects, and that he was one of the soundest draftsmen...
...Beckmann, Germany's greatest living artist (before Hitler), was packing to leave Holland, teach at the Chicago Art Institute, when invasion swallowed him in the spring of 1940. Last week, Chicago gave missing Max Beckmann his biggest one-man show in the U.S., at the plush-lined, modern-art-conscious Arts Club...
...fought their way down Malaya on a miniature scale. The little men, in light shorts, open shirts and rubber sneakers, or with bare feet, were apparently insufficient targets for the British. As they had used tiny, steel-saving two-man subs at Pearl Harbor, they used in Malaya tiny one-man tanks and two-man gun carriers. The British even said that their doctors cut miniature Japanese bullets out of miniature British wounds...