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...sleeping, eating and practicing while on the road is done in the car, wherever it happens to be parked. The hooting and clatter of passing trains bothers him not a whit...
...that is said, adverse criticism of the bill now at the University should stop. There may be some who will disagree with the theme of "Dawn Patrol," for it is pure isolationist propaganda, but there can be no one to say that it is not well done. Not one whit less real than the trenches of "All's Quiet," the headquarters of Squadron 39 reeks with atmosphere; and the men, down to the last raw, eager replacement, are vividly portrayed. David Niven as Scottie, the happy-go-lucky fight leader, steals acting honors even from Basil Rathbone, who gives...
...practical purposes a new House must be relegated to the if and when category, dependent upon the appearance of a fairy godfather. In the stop-gap measures designed to meet the needs of the present there is more to interest the homeless three hundred, whose hearts palpitate not one whit faster at the thought of a new House ten years from...
Blond, 39, Balkan-bearded, poker-faced, enthusiastic. Whit Burnett is a hypochondriac ex-newspaperman, formerly of Salt Lake City, Vienna and Majorca, now solidly repatriated and a leading godsend to U. S. short story writers whose stuff he publishes when all others refuse. He is also one of the few people who seem to be as fascinated by writers' doings as some are by the orbits of movie stars...
...book which is as anecdotal as a Walter Winchell column. Whit Burnett discourses on the traditions of U. S. humor, jumps to an account of "Graebisch University," a joke institution which met at a Manhattan attorney's house for semi-scatologic and pedantic wisecracking; of moving Lewis Gannett's lake in Connecticut; the history of Story Magazine from its mimeographed inception (67 copies) in Vienna in 1931. He transcribes the cute sayings of his son David, letters from Saroyan, wisecracks about his appendectomy and tonsillectomy (even his surgeon was literary), hypochondria on two continents, occasionally throws...