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Antigone (adapted from the French of Jean Anouilh by Lewis Galantiere; produced by Katharine Cornell in association with Gilbert Miller) was born of the Nazi occupation of Paris. Playwright Anouilh (pronounced Ahn-oo-ee) reworked the famed Antigone of Sophocles with a furtive and topical eye: Antigone's defiance of King Creon's edict that her brother Polynices' body must lie unburied might be a spur to French resistance. In writing the play, Anouilh was plainly walking on eggs. Not only must his Antigone hearten the French, but his Creon must not offend the Germans...
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz got a special Navy Day bow from the Daughters and Sons of Hawaiian Warriors, who made him a High Chief of Hawaii (first since Franklin Roosevelt, in 1934) and gave him the robe of royalty-a cape of yellow, red, and green mamo, oo, and iiwi feathers. In return for his chief's rating, the Admiral bravely chugged through a thank-you paragraph of Hawaiian...
...fine after the first game. Solid Steve O'Neill, who does his worrying on the ball field and leaves it there, just waddled home to the Detroit-Leland Hotel and settled silently behind cigar smoke to read the horrible headlines. Sample (from the Detroit Free Press): "Tigers Wail, oo...
...Cremation of Sam McGee] was to be the keystone of my success." For more than a year "McGrew" and "McGee" lay with a sheaf of other manuscripts among Service's shirts. At last his "author complex" drove him to send them off to a publisher with oo to pay for 104 their private printing. The composing-room crew, who set up the ringing, romping lines in type, were so enthusiastic that the publisher returned Service's $100 and decided to take a chance on the book himself. He claims that Songs of a Sourdough sold...
When he sold eight cartoons to the Arizona Highway magazine, he wrote Mom exuberantly: "By return mail will come a BEE-OO-TIFUL check for $16! Of course $2 isn't a heck...