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Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall said that Army men were "deeply grateful for the skillful seamanship that has escorted 800,000 of them safely across the submarine-infested waters of the Atlantic and Pacific." Admiral Ernest J. King, COMINCH, said that General Marshall's letter gave "evidence...
Carl Hasselmann and his sister Ellie, provincial, supersensitive Americans, dwell in the uneasy revulsions of a sort of spiritual incest. They represent, respectively, the frigid, inhumane predicament of mind-without-spirit and the equally suicidal predicament of spirit-without-mind. Carl's mental drive stretches him flat on the...
"I'm just lucky," drawls Bonham, who was born in 1913, the 13th child of a California wheat rancher. "Anyone could win with the Yankees behind him." Skillful Tiny Bonham will need luck to bear out his fans' predictions that he may win 30 games this season.
Uncle Harry (by Thomas Job; produced by Clifford Hayman in association with Lennie Hatten) is a Grade-B thriller-which, in the present sad state of Broadway, makes it one of the notable events of the spring season. Overlengthy dialogue makes the play move too slowly, overmuch plot makes it...
Venturing into the field of criticism for the first time in recent years, the Advocate presents "The Orthodoxy of Proust," a readable and interesting article by John Bovey of the English A staff. His analysis of Proust's debt to the past is a skillful and significant one, though one...