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...jovial Crony George Allen persuaded him, against his better judgment, to take a fishing trip. To his delight he caught more fish than anyone else in the party-13½ pounds all told. Even better, Major General Harry A. Vaughan got seasick while the President did not feel a qualm...
...newsreels, which have broken more candidates than the old two-thirds rule, he can pose without a qualm. Even with an Indian bonnet or a dead fish, the crudest newsreel props of all, he is neither overwhelming nor silly. He can wear striped pants without looking as if 1) they are rented, or 2) he approves of them...
...rewarding one. Richard III is second-rate Shakespeare, lacking depth, dimension, verbal magic. But in its evil, hunchbacked hero, mounting through blood and stealth to the throne he covets, it has a thumping good stage character. Arrogant, brilliant, constantly dissembling before others but never deceiving himself, murdering without a qualm his followers, his friends, his sovereign, his brother, his little nephews, Richard can be a fascinating villain. Two centuries of notable actors, from Garrick to John Barrymore, made...
...down to what little has been released lately, it is a pity that Decca, the one company that shows any interest in jazz, has the worst record surfaces. These have been improved lately, but not so that a cactus needle can approach them without a qualm. Decca's new Gams of Jazz, vol. 5, lives up to the standards set by the previous albums, and brings out the first batch of all-improvised jazz in over six months. This time, however, there are no big names like Hawkins, or Berigan. As a matter of fact, it is very probably that...
...requirement of Christianity. They have a case. The spirit enjoined by the New Testament was plainly one of love and mercy. But surely it was a spirit that Jesus enjoined, not an iron rule. If keeping a rule involved worse evils than its breach, Jesus broke it without a qualm. . . . It is impossible to make Jesus out to be a consistent pacifist even in personal relations, let alone international relations...