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...Story. This afternoon I went down the hill into the cane fields after the tanks and infantry. Along the west side of a little toy railroad there were dead Japanese every few feet. Some of them were blasted beyond recognition. Under a little farmhouse there were six Jap soldiers, all with their right hands missing, their chests blasted. The old story - suicide by hand grenade...
...enemy fighter plane exploding like a toy...
...last week a rickety, hard-used little toy wagon, with most of the red paint scuffed off the magic word "Express" on its side, was parked casually at the base of the fat, towering northwest column of the White House front portico. Beside it rested a vehicular gadget best known to childhood as an "Irish Mail," a contraption very like a railroad handcar...
...psychopathic personality - and hence perhaps even legally insane. One Manhattan psychiatrist claims that this is shown by Lonergan's "financial promiscuity, sexual promiscuity, emotional shallowness." Typical example of his emotional shallowness : after his wife's death Lonergan went back to the apartment to leave a toy elephant for his son. He was unstable, seldom held a job for long. One of his few recorded jobs was chair pushing at the New York World's Fair. Example of his psychopathic unscrupulousness: his marriage to Heiress (about $6,000,000) Patricia Burton, especially if the rumor about Lonergan...
Standing Room Only (Paramount) warms over the hectic humors of war-crowded Washington. Junior Executive Lee Stevens (Fred MacMurray) comes to Washington to wangle, from New Deal Bigwig Glen Ritchie, a contract to convert a languishing toy factory into an ordnance plant. With him comes fleshly, flashy, proletarian Jane Rogers (Paulette Goddard), who has flirted her way out of the firm's toy donkey department into a secretaryship. First night in Washington the roomless pair huddle miserably under the horse-belly of a Civil War monument...