Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sirs: Wait! Since when has your Music editor written your book reviews? In the March 4th issue, under Music (Bach and Boogie-Woogie), he writes of Elliot Paul and makes the remark that he is the author of one good book, The Life and Death of a Spanish Town. Oh foul slander! Has he never heard of Mr. Paul's Concert Pitch, the best damn musical novel I ever read? As an author myself I don't like to see this - Poet Christopher Darlington Morley is not even eligible for membership.-ED. slipping of your department editors into...
...From the point of view of results," he continued, "it all depends upon how much Germany can get in the way of supplies through her back door. if these are sufficient she can hold out for a long time. However, while she might get enough for a watch-and-wait policy, it is doubtful if she could get enough for an active fighting policy over any length of time...
...Haley is still the same old Cowardly Lion, and very funny too, when he isn't forced to wring a laugh out of an old one. Still it's Rodgers' and Hart's show all the way through, but the public to get a smash hit, will have to wait until these gentlemen come around again to writing for Ray Bolger and Tamara Geva, and to hiring a new author...
Marriage Attempted. Mary Cohan, estranged daughter of Actor George Michael Cohan (who never forgave her for eloping with a banjo player in 1927); and one George Ranken, an accordion player. Balked by Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia laws that called for several days' wait. Elopers Cohan & Ranken returned to their Manhattan nightclub jobs. Said she: "Now I don't know if we'll get married...
Said Sir Archibald (to some newly arrived Anzacs): ". . . Don't be disappointed if you have to wait some time for action. Your arrival here has discouraged our enemies and made war less probable...