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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Laid in Manhattan in 1908, The Damask Cheek centers in Rhoda Meldrum, a plain-looking, vivacious English girl who is visiting her American relatives. The play's charm lies in its half-nostalgic, half-satiric display of the kid-gloved conventions of the time. Its comedy lies in its sharp family portraits-Rhoda's rude, snobbish dowager aunt (well played by Margaret Douglass), her healthily lovesick young cousin Daphne, a pert, gold-digging actress who is engaged to Cousin Jimmy (Myron McCormick). The play's romance lies in Rhoda's unspoken love for Jimmy, the intensity...
...literary front, in a reflective piece for the newspapers, General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell, British Commander in Chief in India, chose as the six greatest generals of all time: Marlborough, Belisarius, Wellington, Frederick, Lee, Napoleon, in order. He picked no "greatest" war, but made plain a little of his feeling about this one. "Possibly my reflections may give others a rest from the present grim business," he concluded, "by reminding them of older and better wars." High aim of U.S. Army maneuvers in Tennessee (see p. 67) is the development of imaginative resourcefulness in the individual soldier. On a Tennessee...
...game hunters had better luck last week. Many areas in Western States are overrun with deer and elk. Game commissions, plainly worried about mounting damages to ranchers for destroyed haystacks, are talking about an added open season, an all-doe season or just plain market-hunting...
...guesses as to what was behind Jerry Land's tactless talk, best guess was that he was plain tired of being needled. Like a bear with bees buzzing around its noggin, he had struck out wildly. His cronies were agreed that he was not thinking of N.M.U. or any other union; he was just plain mad-at newspaper talk about shipyard loafing, at union squabbles between Joe Curran's N.M.U. and the Seafarers' International Union...
...sector of the Nalchik plain massed German forces drove an armored spearhead into the Red Army positions, the Sunday midnight communique of the high command said, and "after bitter fighting the Soviet troops retreated to new positions, having caused heavy losses to the enemy...