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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...taught himself drawing so well that in 1937 Reynolds News gave him a job as a cartoonist. His work caught the eye of the Beaver, who took him over in 1943. Overnight, Giles won a huge following in wartime Britain, notably American soldiers, who liked his good-humored pot shots at their habits. At a time when Americans were monopolizing London taxis, Giles cartooned an American plane which had just crashed into a German house. Its crew, standing a few feet away, was shouting: "Taxi!" Another showed G.I.s hauling away Big Ben's clock on an Army truck while...
...timing of the loan to Spain was designed to smooth the way for U.S. aid to another dictator whom the Administration was more eager than Congress to help: Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito. With Spain assured of its pot of gold, President Truman asked congressional leaders for money to Tito to offset a famine which might, said the President, topple Tito from power. President Truman did not deny that Tito was a Communist; he simply did not mention it. "Tito's defection from Kremlin control represents the first setback for Soviet imperialism and as such is an important political...
...Snobbery," writes Lynes, "has emerged in a whole new set of guises" in recent years. Among them: the Tolerance Snob ("has a special predilection for getting his name printed on letterheads"), the Pot Luck Snob (Casserole Division), the Great-Out-of-Doors Snob, the Freudian Snob ("I have more inhibitions than anyone"), the Efficiency Snob ("answers the phone by barking just his last name"), the Physical Prowess Snob, the Eternal Verities Snob (Back to the Land Division), the Conservative Dress Snob ("The buttons on the sleeves of his jacket actually unbutton...
William Wheeling's adaptation of the old Germanic "Gypsy baron" folk tale, is masterful; he works some good dialogue into the search-for-the-pot-of-gold story, and his lyrics, especially for "A Flyer into Pigs," and "Peace-Loving Man," are unusually clever. Unhappily some of the dialogue is not properly stressed because the actors merely exchange lines without moving where better stage direction would provide some movement on strong speeches. Wheeling also uses some of his lyrics for exposition when they would be better as dialogue...
...Real Toot. The fiction, moreover, is in good part fact. Novelist Schulberg* was one of the young devotees who in the early '30s sat around Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood, watched his creative fires exhaust themselves under the Hollywood pot, and remembered how those fires had lighted a generation on its way in such novels as This Side of Paradise and The Great Gatsby...