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...restoration fever grew. Little John glimpsed victory, but at the last moment powerful old General George Kondylis neatly elbowed him aside, brought George back to the throne, and himself became first commoner. Only a falling out between George and the General, followed by an opportune death, finally dropped the plum of premiership into Little John...
...Morning Glory and Little Women, which capped her early Hollywood success, she was full of the eager, well-bred enthusiasm she absorbed in a free-thinking but socially impeccable Hartford, Conn, family. Then in two dreary cinemadapted James Barrie plays, she slid into interpretations as heavy and lifeless as plum duff. Two years ago, she and Hollywood called it quits...
...Year Hitler conquered without fighting in Austria and at Munich, as they did in 1939 when Man of the Year Stalin got half of Poland by a shrewd deal and a free hand to work his will on Finland. But 1940 did not fall like a plum into the lap of the Dictators. One of them, Benito Mussolini, thinking conquest was easy, proved the year's greatest flop. Another, Joseph Stalin, lost several teeth before he chewed off an edge of tough little Finland. A third, Adolf Hitler, was more successful...
Blitzmas pudding, as widely dished up in the United Kingdom last week, was the same as the traditional Christmas (or plum) pudding except that carrots were much used where the receipt called for certain fruit. There was no Blitzmas shortage of nourishing food but instead of "Christmas goose," turkey or other high-priced fowl* most people, including the armed forces, chomped cheap Empire beef or mutton on Dec. 25. Officers of about the rank of colonel, if at all prosperous themselves, generally treated their men to free beer...
Birthday. Britain's George VI, his 45th, observed "somewhere in the country" with his Queen and two daughters, but-because of rationing-without his usual plum cake at tea. Official celebration waits till June, when colors can be trooped with better prospect of sunshine. Last week the fourth anniversary of his accession to Edward YIU's throne occurred...