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Nice British quip: Pilot Power, off for Dunkirk, asks of a returning fighter pilot: "What's it really like over there?" Drawls the laconic airman: "Cloudy." The cinema's first reconstruction of the retreat from Dunkirk-which seems destined to become as useful in drama and story as the Battle of Waterloo-has a camera angle that is certainly non-Axis. Isolationist Senators might well call Yank pro-British propaganda. Even more obviously it is pro-box-office propaganda...
...been sold down the river I haven't been sold down very far," Byrd answered, expropriating a quip from the Baltimore Sun. His information, some of it admittedly two months old, came from Big Bill Knudsen of OPM, from Admiral Jerry Land at the Maritime Commission, from the Chief of Staff and from the Secretary of the Navy...
Marked symptoms of Old School Stuffiness in the service have recently begot the quip that "if the Foreign Office says so, you can be sure it's wrong." Last week Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden joined the British Army in publicly admitting that criteria built around The Old School Tie are so narrow as to keep out many of the best men for 20th-century jobs. To an applauding House of Commons he announced that hereafter posts in a combined Foreign Office-diplomatic-consular service* would be available to all on the basis of ability. Presumably salaries will be raised...
...presiding judge quip "You hope not," suggest waggishly that all three Sitwells ought to testify at once...
Tribute to quip-lipped Columnist Walter Winchell's caterwauling against the fifth column came from the Mount Airy, N. C. Times: "We propose an honor to this American-who fears no man, party, or power: let 'God Bless America' be changed to read, 'God Bless America and Give Us More Walter Winchells.' " At his Finnish home, Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim...