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Beat the Band (music by Johnny Green; book by George Marion Jr. & George Abbott; produced by Abbott) is a sort of bouncing and stentorian corpse. Always long on pep, Producer Abbott (Too Many Girls, Best Foot Forward) has this time loosed a regular stage blitz, with everyone in the cast seeming to chase a fire, and most of the dances doing everything but start one. With a nod from the plot Abbott has worked a blaring swing band, all traps and trumpets, into the proceedings. Even the costumes are loud as a St. Patrick...
Hoping to assemble a pep rally of its own, the Varsity Club has chosen October 23, the evening before the Army game, to hold its annual dinner at the Club House. Toastmaster at the dinner, which is to be held at 7:30 o'clock, will be William M. Rand '09, former track captain, intercollegiate hurdler, and member of the American Olympic Team...
Describing a "pep talk" given by MacLeish to OWI field officers at Washington's swank Carlton Hotel, O'Donnell printed in full the $6-a-plate menu, smacked his lips over "a bar with Martini, Manhattan and Daiquiri cocktails, plus scotch highballs for a starter, a dry white wine with the fish, a sturdy burgundy with the meat and all topped off with coffee and liqueurs, cigars and cigarets." Afterwards a "visiting fireman of war information" remarked: "And now I'm supposed to go back home and tell them we all must sacrifice and reduce our standard...
...mysterious "pep-pills" long-rumored in use by the Nazi army have been tentatively identified. They are probably benzedrine sulfate-a drug ten times as potent as caffeine and often used by U.S. college students (without regard to the harmful aftereffects on their nerves) to supercharge them through cram-sessions and finals. This is the conclusion of Gordon Alles and George Feigen of Cal Tech, who have been studying antifatigue drugs for years. The U.S. is not officially supplying its armed forces with such pills, although the British use them. So far as Dr. Alles knows, no pep-pills have...
...street, who had been hoping for a realistic report on the war or a red-blooded pep talk, the good, grey Secretary's speech was also good and grey: another of Judge Hull's careful, cautious discussions of war aims and the post-war world. The rich, quiet, mauve-decade style was lost in his plodding delivery, the vaultlike acoustics of his office. Nevertheless Secretary Hull had made two great propositions clear...