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When Producer Firth Shephard begged her to take Arsenic on tour to get away from the bombs, she murmured: "Where do you suggest we start, dear - Dover?" When crusty Critic James Agate saluted her with "You are still the second most beautiful woman on the English stage," she purred: "That's quite a compliment, from the second-best critic in England." Once, leafing through an album, she came across a picture, taken ten years before, of a much younger rival actress. She studied it a moment, then sighed: "My, my, hasn't she aged...
Jascha Herfetz, one of the world's great violin virtuosos, came off second-best at General Omar N. Bradley's little entertainment in Germany for a group of visiting Soviet generals. After Heifetz and Cinemactor Mickey Rooney had drawn polite applause, three unidentified G.I.s and three WACs went into a groovey jitterbug routine that sent the delighted Russians right out of this world...
...friends of Wendell Willkie were mostly of two kinds: those who were for him as second-best to Roosevelt, and those who worked with Willkie for his own election to the Presidency. Of the score of men beginning with Campaign Manager Ralph Cake who had done most work for and with Willkie in his 1944 campaign, only one, Albert D. Lasker, was last week in the Roosevelt camp. All the rest were working for Dewey. Senator Joe Ball (see below) had led the rival cam paign for Harold Stassen of Minnesota, whom Willkie disliked even more than...
...people hoard when things look scarce, stop buying and consume their hoards when supplies look plentiful again. Added evidence: tea and cocoa (still on a quota basis, and allegedly scarce) are still in as much demand as ever, though in the U.S. as a whole they are traditionally second-best substitutes for coffee...
Class E is particularly happy about the new baseball program. Having come out of the School championships as the official second-best team, the gang will now have a few more innings to show what is in them, E has drawn a bye in the first game and in the second will meet the winner of the Class K-Faculty contest. Not wishing our senior friends in K any hard luck we hope that the Faculty will win. The E boys having been up against the Faculty in various other capacities heretofore would now like to meet them...