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...reminiscent glow. This is how Vienna was. These are the people who coursed its cobbled streets under the gaslights-denizens of a far less frenetic age. Von Doderer has no illusions: he knows they are all dead, along with their time, but the fact cannot sadden a memory whose gaiety is as imperishable as the ghost of Vienna itself. In his skillful hands, the ghost becomes very much alive...
...Forman's (500 bbls. daily) bucket. But the name is well worth the price. Brown-Forman President George Garvin Brown carefully and promptly announced that the Motlows will still run Jack Daniel's in the same old way. But it was still the kind of news to sadden whisky sippers everywhere, and none more than those in Tennessee. Wrote the Nashville Tennessean: "It would not be entirely accurate to say that the Jack Daniel distillery is the only place in Tennessee where whisky is made, but it is a unique institution that never again will seem quite...
Robert Young's limp sideburns evoke the period as sharply as the best of the sets. Adolphe Menjou and Reginald Gardner are atmospheric. The fact that Cinemactress Grable's histrionic legs are here shrouded in fancy skirts may sadden her admirers. But she makes up for that in one high-stepping number which has something of the shock value that might result from watching grandma, in the bloom of her youth, chuck an old rip under the chin with the toe-point of her slipper...
...Elsewhere the comment varied too. In much-bombed Malta, under chalked up exhortations to "Bomb Rome," joyful Maltese scrawled: "Thanks." In bomb-ridden Chungking the Catholic Social Welfare exhorted Italians to "wake up and live." In unbombed Dublin Eamon de Valera's Irish Press thought the bombs would "sadden many." London's official attitude was: "regretful, yes; apologetic, no." Unofficial London: "It's about time." Madrid and Lisbon were noncommittal, Rio de Janeiro generally approved; Buenos Aires frowned...
Another 'we regret to inform you' has come from the Navy to sadden our entire community, said the Cochran (Ga.) Journal. James Forehand of Cochran, Georgia fought in the battles of Bataan and Corregidor! It makes us all proud...