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...Czechs thought they knew. To survive is an obsession with them; it is also their greatest talent. One of the smaller of Europe's peoples, they never had notions of grandeur, always realized that their role is to react rather than to act: to adjust themselves to conditions not of their making-and to survive. Unlike their next-door Slav neighbors, the Poles, the Czechs never believed in having more than one superior enemy at a time, never dreamed of going down in a romantic blaze of glory. Their national history is one long, continued search for allies...
...Department, unable to prove a single case of Axis espionage in Eire, be content with having put themselves on record? One clue: around the State Department, keenly conscious of the big U.S. Irish vote, the worried word about Eire last week was: "How do you think the U.S. will react...
...board asked Chaplain Talbott how he would react to several situations commonly encountered by service padres. Examples: 1) On a ship returning to port after several months at sea, the captain hands the chaplain $500, tells him when they land to hire a place for a dance, get an orchestra, plenty of beer, see that the sailors have a good time. 2) On a ship returning to port after a long stretch of duty, the commanding officer tells the chaplain that when the men land some will want to see women; he orders the chaplain to give...
...buffets she never bothers to fill her own plate, but wanders among her guests, helping herself from anybody's plate that comes handy. In gossip-gathering she uses the same techniques. The men who run the studios and hand out the jobs read her faithfully and as faithfully react. (One screen writer who managed to get mentioned three times in Louella's column found himself abruptly raised from $500 a week...
...women reporters started firing questions: Which seems more real to you, the life you left or the one you're living in now? Which do you like better, being a director or an actor? Do you think the war has changed you? How did the other soldiers react to fighting alongside Clark Gable...