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...took Europe 19 years to learn how to fight Napoleon. ... It took the Marines just three days to learn how to storm an atoll fortress and dig the Japs out. . . . We've got the toughest and smartest fighting men in this world. But as long as the war lasts some of them somewhere will be getting killed. We have got to acknowledge that or else we might as well stay home...
After 38 critical years on the sidelines, Variety, the smartest show-business paper in the U.S., last week went into show business itself. The celebrated weekly put on a weekly radio show for Philco (Blue Network, Sun., 6-7 p.m., E.W.T.). Just why the shrewd, slangy journal should break into radio was candidly explained by its grizzled, punchy editor, Abel ("Hiya, sonny boy!") Green: "For cash consideration, filthy lucre, publicity. For the durable function of bringing to the air what's good in all branches of show business-a sort of personality Crossley...
...Sothern, one of the smartest comediennes in the business. In part it is due to a crisp script, which manages to lather up a good deal of apt comic comment on the lives and habits of U.S. defense workers. The film's central characters are Good Girl Maisie Revere (Miss Sothern in her sixth Maisie picture) and Bad Girl Iris (Jean Rogers). They are sidelighted by a cocky test pilot, for whom Maisie falls hard, and by a bolt & nut man-the chinny type who assures every new girl in the plant that he knows all the angles...
...Yorker's book editor: "I thought it was time to move over and give someone else a chance to sit in that seat." Thus amicably last week the New Yorker and pudgy, erudite Clifton ("Kip") Fadiman parted company. In ten years Fadiman had become the smartest, probably the best-known, and at times one of the most influential book reviewers in the U.S. Now, said he: "I'm through with reviewing." The resignation is effective at year's end, unless a replacement is found sooner...
This sentimental doggerel was published by Pravda as an inspiration to the Red Army, which with the smell of victory in its nostrils, last week was driving through the army which only three years ago was the smartest in the world...