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...sport for many years, was reported to have asked for a stationary bicycle to keep his trim little legs in shape, a pulley weight to flatten his waistline. Mandel, feared in politics for his thoroughgoing dossiers of the careers of France's great and near-great, asked for pen, ink, paper. Daladier, whom the war strain turned from a fairly pleasant individual into a red-faced, moody old bull, was more taciturn than ever. In the daylight he scrawled a lengthy history of his record in office to present to the court...
...poisonous character played to the "t" by Robert Readick and is probably the most amusing person in the play. To judge by the record, Messrs. Kaufman and Hart had better keep writing about their friends--of whom they have a copious number, for when they talk about themselves their pen loses its point...
...City, N. Y., poetasty Playwright Maxwell Anderson (What Price Glory?, Mary of Scotland, Winterset) won a prize for the local artists' colony by a bit of trenchant prose. His composition: "The increasing odor from the pig pen which is wafted constantly to the study in which I write . . . is so rank that unless corrected it will force me to abandon my home." The prize: a civic order limiting the number of pigs to 20 at any one time in any one place in the township. Mr. Anderson objected to a large, newly-built pen which housed 200 pigs...
...Matsuoka like a lash across the shoulder blades, unexpectedly, unpleasantly, from behind. He had tossed verbal blows with his staff for only 72 hours when it came. It came not from his own ambitious mind, not from the Emperor or Prince Konoye or the Army-but from a fountain pen in a hand which wrote the words Franklin D. Roosevelt. The signature was set under an executive order which amounted to an embargo on oil and scrap iron. Japan had been getting an average of 70% and 90% respectively of her supply of these vital war materials from...
...memorable Bounty books (Mutiny on the Bounty, Men Against the Sea, Pitcairn's Island), has struck off a happy character in his bland, blue-eyed old surgeon. If its 18th-Century flavor is not distinguished, neither is it strained, and the same goes for Warren Chappell's pen-&-ink illustrations. Now 53, with a son of 14, lean Norman Hall still lives at Papeete, Tahiti, where he and Nordhoff went to be at peace after fighting through the last war. Tahiti being a French possession, their remoteness from the modern world is no longer what it used...