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...A.E.F. and a brigadier general. After the war, Dawes urged the appointment of a national budget director, became, under President Harding, the nation's first, won later fame for the Dawes Plan (1924) for easing Germany's reparations payments. His profanity ("Hell 'n Maria") and tart, impulsive manner caused comment at home, more so abroad. In England, as U.S. Ambassador, he staunchly refused to appear in the standard knee breeches,* turned up at court wearing ordinary evening dress and at state functions smoked the big underslung pipe that became his trademark. A busy man all his life...
Beethoven at Last. To Virgil Thomson, critic of the New York Herald Tribune, who devoted three tart Sunday columns to the subject, the biggest audience in the U.S. is getting very poor service indeed. He had a flock of letters from readers telling him, "How right you are!" Both Ward French, president of Community, and Marks Levine, board chairman of Civic, were ready to tell him how wrong...
...About Eve. Scripter-Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz's tart treatise on how to win fame and lose friends on Broadway; with Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders (TIME...
...About Eve. Scripter-Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz's tart treatise on how to win fame and lose friends on Broadway; with Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders (TIME...
...About Eve. Scripter-Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz's tart treatise on how to win fame and lose friends on Broadway; with Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders (TIME...