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...Broadway's dramacritics could enjoy remembering that almost every one of them, with the exception of the late, wise Percy Hammond, had damned the play and said it had no chance. Last week Playwright Kirkland announced that he would give several of Tobacco Road's props-a wagon wheel, a tree branch, a well, a shack-to the Smithsonian Institution...
...last February Pandora, now age 3, began to toy with her Pablum mash. Gradually she sickened, by last week was having convulsions. One day police sirens screamed from The Bronx to Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center ahead of a zoo station wagon. Pandora, quieted by nembutal, was lifted in a stretcher, borne into the famed Neurological Institute, whisked to the tenth-floor X-ray room...
While the historians and scholars pored over such museum pieces as wooden-wheeled Conestoga wagons (Pennsylvania-Dutch originals of the famed Western covered wagon) and hoary Kentucky rifles (which were manufactured by the Pennsylvania Dutch before the Kentuckians ever heard of them), Henry and George, all dressed up in store clothes, tried their best to enter into the spirit of things...
...gestures are so many indications to Germany that the Soviet Union must not be neglected. I do not suggest that Russia has hitched her wagon to Hitler's star, but I do think the Russians now feel the need to show Germany and the world in general that this is not the case. Not for Winston Churchill's blue eyes, nor to gratify President Roosevelt, but for practical business purposes in the coming dicker with the Germans...
Latin America was so nearly solid behind the U.S. against the Berlin-Rome Axis that, in effect, an All-American Axis had been created. Whether Latin-American statesmen had been moved by the Good Neighbor policy or simply by a desire to jump on the band wagon now that the U.S. was acting vigorously, the immediate effect was the same. Latin Americans are realists, and active U.S. support for Britain had made the cause of freedom worth joining...