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Lots of people write nice letters to eye-some, earsome, young Cinemactress Deanna Durbin, some of them pretty big shots too. But last week she got fan mail from the biggest shot south of Berchtesgaden. Benito Mussolini's own Popolo d'Italia wrote and published a tender little note...
...should answer [the Duce's] billet-doux, Deanna, you might ask him why he's more tender of American than of his own youth. . . . What leader started the business of war for the young anyway...
...older he grew, and the less easily intoxicated by things he became, the more he kept himself in writing fettle by getting drunk on his own words. In consequence, much of his later verse (notably his brilliantly loquacious Autumn Journal} is lively but devitalizing reading. It contains humorous, tender and thoughtful patches; but for the most part it reveals an ugly picture of a man writing with a stiff, long upper lip and a flaccid heart...
...leaves, 8 whole allspice, 6 cloves, 2 lemon slices, ½ tsp. salt, ¼ tsp. pepper, unflavored gelatin, horseradish sauce. Directions: skin and clean eel. Cut on bias into 1-inch lengths. Cover with cold water, heat to boiling, skim and add remaining ingredients except gelatin. Simmer until eel is tender, about 1 hour...
Cardinal point of Hauser's study is the split personality of the Japanese. At home he is "serene and tender," is so hypersensitive he requires vases of flowers in his subway trains; in uniform he is "as ruthless as the Prussian sergeant" and is capable of such atrocities as the Rape of Nanking. In explaining him Hauser eschews Freud for Cervantes: he is "a frustrated knight whose quixotic sense of chivalry makes him fight windmills and cut his belly if he is defeated." Thus millions of Japanese have been convinced of the sanctity of their service to China, have...