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John Barrymore lived all his brilliant, violent, much-married life in glass houses. No biography can hope to pull up any blinds; it can only poke under carpets and rummage in desk drawers. In Good Night, Sweet Prince (Viking; $3.50) Barrymore's lusty pal Gene Fowler (The Great Mouthpiece, The Great Magoo) has done just that. Gaudy, gossipy, with a sob-sister lining to its Rabelaisian hide, Good Night, Sweet Prince honors Barrymore without emasculating him. From it the Great Profile paradoxically emerges both more tarnished and more dazzling, more fantastic and more real...
Tough Job. If Bagramian takes Vitebsk, he will rank with other Red greats: Konstantin Rokossovsky, now inching toward Vitebsk from the under side; Nikolai Vatutin, fighting in the Kiev bulge, 350 miles to the south; Stalin's pal, Ivan Konev, long stalemated in the Dnieper bend...
...handsome young Marine walked briskly toward Major Crowe's headquarters, grinning in greeting to a pal. There was a shot. The Marine spun around, fell to the beach dead. He had been shot through the temple. A Jap sniper had waited since early morning for just such a shot at a range of less than ten yards...
There is a story about H. G. Wells and Vegetarian Bernard Shaw. Said Wells: "I don't like to peach on a pal, but Shaw cheats." Woollcott "tried to imagine the author of Candida and Saint Joan giving way to beefsteaks as a solitary vice." "Yes," said Wells. "He takes liver extract and calls it 'those chemicals...
...hate to do this to an old and trusted pal like Jimmy Cagney, but there's no getting around the fact that the initial cinematic attempt of the Cagney clan did little more than provide another likely victim for the fiendish English A section...