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Four days later Patton prayed in a different vein: "Sir, this is Patton again and I beg to report complete progress . . . Sir, it seems to me that You have been much better informed about the situation than I was, because it was that awful weather which I cursed so much which made it possible for the German army to commit suicide. That, Sir, was a brilliant military move and I bow humbly to a supreme military genius...
Lyous noted that "the telephone is the vein of modern journalism...
...Road to Rome" was the first play of Robert E. Sherwood '18 and a success on Broadway in 1927. It is somewhat in the vein of his "Idiot's Delight" in that it has a comic situation set in a period of history which allows Mr. Sherwood to work in some of his anti-war feelings. It is not as forceful, bitter, or integrated as was "Idiot's Delight," nor is it as funny. Furthermore, while it shows no signs of old age, neither does it show reasons for revival...
...Pull Down Thy Vanity." The "Pisan Cantos" continue in much the same vein as their predecessors; it's still the same old Ez. He still rants against the capitalists and remembers old friends-T. S. Eliot with acerbity, William Butler Yeats with fondness. At times, he is his old brash and raucous self, praising Benito and gleefully shouting...
...those who wish to be nostalgic in a slightly different vein, the Exeter theater has brought back Goodbye Mr. Chips, which has its last showing tonight. Loew's State and Orpheum are showing a documentary of the U. S. Navy's activities in the Antarctic, rendered glamorous by Lieutenants Robert Taylor and Van Heflin. Much of the film, incidentally, was photographed by Hugh Foster '50 while he was on duty with a Navy communications unit...