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...Face It! (book by Herbert & Dorothy Fields; music & lyrics by Cole Porter; produced by Vinton Freedley) is the first musical of the season to stir the critics to half-hysterical admiration. The show, a good routine musical, didn't fully rate it, but its headliner, mop-haired, magic-tongued Danny Kaye, did. Last season, in Lady in the Dark, he was almost brand-new to Broadway, but he would have stolen the show from any one less than Gertrude Lawrence. In Let's Face It! (for which he up & quit Lady) he rides off with the show...
...help stir doctors up about the "Red Plague," Dr. Homer F. Swift of the Rockefeller Institute gave two speeches at Harvard last week at the annual New England Postgraduate Assembly. He showed pictures of rheumatic fever victims, gave doctors practical tips for treatment...
Generous and foolish Americans, stir yourselves to a moment's reflection! It is only nations deficient in intelligence and moral purpose that can conceive no conclusion of conflict except the crushing of an enemy, even when that enemy is ready to renounce a wicked leadership. And in this case, the cost of such mental and moral deficit (responsibility for which must lie heavily on our universities as well as on Washington) must be the ruin of Europe in long drawn out war and the endless slaughter of our youth. The best of England has no such desire...
Berlin's broadcasts to the U.S. being in general too dull for any but the beeriest Bundsman, Goebbels & Co. have tried various publicity dodges (such as paying for collect cablegrams) to stir up interest. Fortnight ago CBS's short-wave listening station heard Lord Haw-Haw introduced; then a voice said, in German, "Switch that off." Later it was announced to America that Haw-Haw had been "banned from the air." But England continued to hear His Lordship on his usual schedule. Last week Lord Haw-Haw explained that he had been "banned" not by Germany...
...creed is: that the U.S. needs good offshore patrol and needs it badly. As evidence he presented the 1918 raids by U-boats on commerce in U.S. waters, a piece he knew by heart. That summer six U-boats left Kiel to see what kind of trouble they could stir up on the U.S. Atlantic coast...