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Visitors to Washington's National Gallery last week found themselves on a rubberneck tour of 18th-Century London. They peered into brawling alleys and elegant, candlelit drawing rooms; into prisons where the whipping posts were "the reward of idleness" and cockpits where the gamblers seemed more ferocious than the cocks. The tour conductors: blunt, biting William Hogarth, ribald Thomas Rowlandson...
Walter Winchell (some 800 papers, circ. some 25,000,000) runs a Broadway-Miami-Washington-Reno-Hollywood gossiporium which "suggests a continuous vaudeville entertainment in progress on a rubberneck bus en route to a peepshow and yet it may be the most effective pro-American propaganda medium in the country. . . ." In suggesting that Walter Winchell is the No. 1 propagandist-ideologue for World War II, Columnist Fisher may well be right. But last week Congressman Martin Dies, investigator of un-American activities, was planning to put Mr. Winchell under the magnifying glass...
...Around? Gas rationing was on in 17 Eastern States; was on the way for the whole country. Last week air service to 25 cities was eliminated completely. Stopped are all sight-seeing rubberneck tours. Effective June 15 are new war measures for U.S. railroads: a stripping-down of luxury services-Pullmans, parlor, observation, club or lounge cars...
Playwright Rice cannily offers the audience more than just Boy Meets Girl; his real hero is Manhattan Island. With dozens of minor characters, scenes in subways, taxis, rubberneck wagons, a producer's office, an artist's studio, an all-night Coffee Pot, the Metropolitan Museum, the play brightly wanders all around the town-without ever really getting inside it. Its people-the opportunist and the radical, the glamor girl and the little old lady, the sailor and the floozy (Ann Thomas)-are all cut out of cardboard. Only Rice's bitter, cynical, wisecracking producer walks...
...that the men can split a tin of canned beer together." Once a year Joe meets "the alumni of his school fraternity," and on rare occasions he takes Gertrude "uptown" to the theatre. "They spring a dinner at one of the smart Manhattan joints, jostle in the crowds, and rubberneck the lights of the Great White...