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...German waltz and that Mr. Earle, unknown to him as the U. S. Minister, had then called him a "dirty Nazi" several times and finally struck him with a bottle. Dr. Becker said he had retaliated-but didn't say how-and that Minister Earle had thereupon retired to an alcove and thumbed his nose...
...hours as the lesser Academy Awards were doled out, pulled themselves together at last as John Ford (the only directorial nominee not present) got his Oscar for the year's best direction (The Grapes of Wrath). Then panting David Selznick got one for the best production (Rebecca). Thereupon Actress Lynn Fontanne, fresh from her evening's performance next door in There Shall Be No Night, rose to hand the Oscar for character to Jane Darwell (for Ma Joad, in The Grapes), the noblest Oscar of them all (for Kitty Foyle) to Ginger Rogers, who wept, screamed "greatest moment...
...this course, the better." Students like to mimic his lecturing methods. Once, at a Yale Lit dinner, a student representing Professor Berdan came in with a load of books, and raising one aloft, announced: "Gentlemen, this is an exceedingly rare edition. There are only two copies in America left." Thereupon, in the professor's best dramatic classroom manner, he ripped the book in half...
...people sang with the Minister. But there were also hisses, and a sabre-scarred German in civilian clothes protested to the Minister that the song was anti-German. The Minister replied that he liked the song, that Bulgaria was neutral, and that he would comport himself as he pleased. Thereupon the German threw a champagne bottle at the Minister who, in warding it off, got a six-inch bruise in his forearm. The Minister promptly socked the German in the face, knocking him down. It was the Minister's third personal café tangle with the Axis since taking...
First break in the case came in 1936, when WMBQ plopped into receivership. Thereupon the fight between the survivors got really hot. While they squabbled along, FCC tried to figure out which station was best equipped to take over, discovered that WCNW was continually wobbling off its frequency, was operated as haphazardly as a Model T. Thereupon FCC decided to give WWRL sole right to the frequency it once shared with the others...