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...Atlantic was wan and weak when Editor Weeks took over. Later other young blood (notably urbane Richard Ely Danielson, with new ownership money) was infused. The oldtimer soon sat up to a new diet: less literature for literature's sake, more topical, issue-grappling articles. This week Editor Weeks and Publisher Donald B. Snyder could report a strong Atlantic pulse: 1943 advertising up 38% from 1939, December 1943's circulation of 108,037 (not including newsstand sales, which bring it to Snyder's estimate of 125,000) up 78% from 1939's average. The Atlantic...
...dogs group themselves on a grassy bank to watch a family of human beings pass: "There go the most intelligent of all animals." One of Thurber's masterpieces carries no caption at all. A simple drawing which out-surrealizes a whole school of artists, it shows a lone, wan male cowering before a house whose whole three-storied back has somehow melted into the head of the waiting woman. The book also reproduces Thurber's famous 17 drawings illustrating The War Between Men and Women (including The Fight in the Grocery and Zero Hour-Connecticut...
...South of France come a painter named Carroll (Victor Jory) and his second wife (Actress Bergner). They are a seemingly enraptured couple. For quite a while, people drink tea and drone on about Beauty in an atmosphere more amorous than ominous; then the wife turns weak and wan - though not from knowing that her husband is hitting it up with a young widow two villas away...
Said the News Chronicle: "The Prime Minister is hardly likely to be what doctors call a good patient." Britons envisaged "Winnie" wan but resplendent in the cream silk pajamas he loves. They imagined him resenting his confinement, glowering at the doctors, harassing the nurses, worrying over state affairs, demanding a Scotch & soda, trying to bribe attendants to bring him a cigar...
...white-tie manner of Announcer Milton J. Cross on an opera program, recently resigned. Now Milton J. Cross, who likes a little spoofing, burlesques himself. The program notes written for him are rare and irreverent non sense. ("The melody then builds into a five-part harmony with the bassoon wan dering off happily in search of a short beer.") Scripter Welbourn Kelley is now with the Navy, but continues to send in the scripts. Singer Mary Small is the latest in a notable list of "divas" who began with a vocalist named Dinah Shore...