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...same vein, congrats to Frank Pinet for successfully promoting a Junior F.P. last week, weighing in at seven and one-half-pounds...
...brightly Brazilian Copacabana with its gorgeous showgirls, is making his first real nose-to-nose appearance in twelve years. Schnozzle ("I know I'm not good-lookin', but wot's my opinion against tousands of odders?") has aged but fortunately not mellowed, is again in the vein of the late, great Clayton, Jackson & Durante act, able to concentrate on his own mad, multileveled comedy which Hollywood usually heavily diluted with other men's ideas. He brings on his old partner, Eddie Jackson, partly to strut, mostly to stooge; fetches his fans with old favorites like Inka...
...self-satisfaction about being in the know, while giving his poetry confidence and verve, unfortunately cancels it out as a remedial criticism of American life. In some of his later poems Shapiro seems to be trying, by writing in an unreticent personal vein, to escape from his sophistication. The results are at best ingenuous, at worst maudlin...
This and other British reports in the same vein did not entirely check with the experience of U.S. observers, who found tough, well-equipped German units in central Tunisia, and advised Washington to prepare for a prolonged and difficult African campaign. But, whoever was right, a parallel with the German position in 1918 was discernible. Until the last months of World War I, the German armies at the fronts were formidably strong. Yet the seeds of German defeat were working in their ranks and at home in the Reich, and the outward signs in 1918 were much the same...
...Manchester Guardian spoke for the broad bloc of liberal-minded Britons: "The United States is carrying on the war with determination, but it has not yet concluded the debate on the objectives of the war which Pearl Harbor interrupted. . . . Much of the discussion has been far below the lofty vein of Vice President Wallace. . . . Isolationism . . . has again reared its head; there is real fear that the country will tread the same path...