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...Voice of the Turtle (by John van Druten; produced by Alfred de Liagre Jr.) offers the season's smallest cast and one of its gayest evenings. Playwright van Druten (There's Always Juliet, Old Acquaintance) has not only written a winning light comedy around just three people, but has even managed to suggest that three's a crowd. For youthful Actress Sally Middleton (Margaret Sullavan) and Sergeant Bill Page (Elliott Nugent) two is company, and good comedy at that...
When mild-looking Victor Krulak was graduated from the Naval Academy in 1934 he was the smallest man in his class. He had a long Milquetoast nose, soft reddish hair, one constantly surprised eyebrow, and a solid reputation for whimsical understatement. Inevitably, he was called "The Brute." Last week, as a lieutenant colonel of the Marines, back from a brush with the Japs on Choiseul Island, The Brute was in line for a Navy Cross. His Marine paratroopers had harried and jabbed the Jap for a week, killed at least 144, wounded uncounted others...
...News, with a knowing eye on its "common man" circulation (2,050,000 daily, 3,950,000 Sunday), also recalled with a sneer and a gloat the President's respectability: "Respectable, but not popular. [It] is the smallest, as to circulation, of the four New York City morning newspapers. . . . Its daily circulation [is] 293,304; its Sunday circulation 546,705. The paper is the mouthpiece of the New York-and-vicinity genteel moneyed crowd -the select coterie which feels that things British are superior to things American. . . . How did the Herald Tribune get to be an Anglomaniac newspaper...
...Because advertising is booming, and population in war-industry cities is mushrooming, they have not done the job too well. In this year's third quarter some 230 newspapers had to get extra allotments of newsprint from WPB. (Biggest grant: 1,772 tons to the Los Angeles Times; smallest: one ton to the Salem, Ohio News...
Running second percentage wise are the business men, with a total of 25 per cent or 305. Their number seems to be tops in Company B, with 73 former executives, and smallest in Company C, with 51. The next largest contingent in the school is made up of ex-accountants, 15 per cent or 189 in number. These former income tax wrestlers are largest in Company D, with 44, and drop down to 27 in Company...