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Philip Barry really had something in "Philadelphia Story." Eliot Nugent made a Broadway hit out of "Male Animal." Katherine Hepburn knocked her second home run in a row when she put "Woman of the Year" on celluloid. The combination should have been a sure-fire-blue-ribbon-on-the-nose-double-or-quits royal straight flush. But somehow two and two doesn't seem to make four in the theatre world. It makes a small fraction of one, called "Without Love...
Franklin Roosevelt was in fine fettle. It was St. Patrick's Day: he wore a greenish tweed suit, a green tie, a green ribbon in his lapel; on his desk stood a vase of green carnations, a pot of shamrock. He was pleased at having a big cat to let out of the bag-General MacArthur's new command in Australia; and he had something else up his sleeve. He had found one of those sly, semi-scholarly parallels on which he loves to impale his more annoying critics, like marshmallows on a toasting fork...
Some readers will think not. They can nevertheless read Mr. Churchill for its author's sense of history as a pageant of personalities, his eye for vivid, incongruous detail, his ability to compress masses of fact into a smooth ribbon of narrative. They can also read it to trace the development of Winston Churchill from the specious Victorian calm into which he was born, until, an old man, he put the will of a battered empire into four words: "We shall never surrender...
...Boston, when the carolers came on Christmas Eve, the great houses on Beacon Hill would-barring unexpected blackout-be alight from top to bottom, with a candle in every window. There would be shiny holly wreaths tied with red ribbon on the doors, milk-white mistletoe berries over the living-room entrance, clusters of bayberry and bittersweet over the stockings on the mantel. Small children in fuzzy pajamas would be led unwillingly to bed, while teen-age brothers & sisters paraded stiffly in first Tuxedos and long dresses, ready to sweep off to Christmas Eve dances...
Scarcely breaking stride, Bing Crosby loped off with a blue ribbon for meeting the Treasury emergency in song. With Connie Boswell, on his Kraft Music Hall hour Thursday night (NBC Red, 9 to 10), he plugged the pleasantest of 1941's patriotic ditties, Irving Berlin's Any Bonds Today? (copyrighted by Henry Morgenthau Jr.), with a brand-new verse...