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...Merry Monahans (Universal), a jigsaw of nostalgic cliche, sometimes mildly pleasing, never downright unpleasant, involves vaudevillians Jack Oakie, Donald O'Connor and Peggy Ryan in one more exhumation of variety's vanished glories. Chief problem in this one: keeping Paterfamilias Oakie, a sterling performer when sober, away from the bottle. Jack Oakie continues as amiably reliable as a merry-go-round. Miss Ryan is less rambunctious and more human than before. Donald O'Connor, besides being a solid vaudevillian, remains the most likable juvenile in pictures...
Facing the Winter. The truth was that with the arrival of the autumnal equinox no more prolonged periods of good fighting weather could be expected. In Italy there was less talk of "annihilating" the German Army, a sober realization that no magic carpet would take the Allies to the Po River. Now it was a battle of roads. The prospect of at least part of a second winter in Italy was gradually becoming a reality...
...Senate, Michigan's sober Arthur H. Vandenberg mulled the question that will perplex the U.S. for months to come: "What shall we say ... to govern our own American delegate when he is called upon finally to vote in respect to the use of force . . . without the constitutional concurrence of Congress? That will raise a very interesting question. ... It cannot be settled at Dumbarton Oaks. It cannot be settled by any international conference. It is nobody's business but ours...
Last week heads of Paris dress houses were consulting ebulliently with their designers about their victory collections. Said Lelong: "Until now we have had no desire to create. Now we will do the greatest collections in history. They will be wonderful, but not crazy. Our jubilation will be sober...
...contrast to his opposite number, noisy, dashing George Patton, Hodges is a sober, soft-voiced professional with a clipped grey mustache; like Bradley, he is a solid infantryman. Unlike Bradley he went only one year to West Point; then enlisted and fought his way up the ranks...