Word: wits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chabrier: Trois Valses Romantiques (Robert and Gaby Casadesus on two pianos; Columbia; 4 sides). Pre-Vichy elegance and wit, glitteringly played by a Frenchman and his wife, an ex-pupil...
...Questions?, familiarly known as "The Brains Trust," brings together as regulars an old sea dog, a fluent philosopher and a famed scientist-all three bossed by a London wit. Spontaneous and unrehearsed, its object is not to stump the experts but to draw them out. BBC now receives more than 2,000 questions a week, of which the likeliest dozen or so are popped to the Brains Trust during its three-quarters of an hour (5:15 to 6 p.m. Sundays...
...Evidence of "unlimited cooperation" with U.S. foreign policy, to wit: repeal of the Arias-imposed ban on arming merchant ships (there are approximately 125 U.S.-owned ships under Panama registry); promise of "quick and favorable" action on any U.S. requests for air-and naval-base sites...
...history, Japan had at least picked its likeliest pinch hitter. Fifty-four-year-old Saburo Kurusu had just about the maximum sense of the American temper possible to a patriotic, native-born Japanese. Known as the most Westernized of Japanese diplomats, he speaks English well, is an after-dinner wit in several languages. His diplomatic career has taken him to China, the Philippines, Hawaii, Chile, Italy, Greece, New York...
Little George Jessel, with a couple of lively monologues, does what he can for the show. Big Sophie Tucker, with a lot of over-lively songs and an uncompleted striptease, does more than anyone wants. The girls and costumes are pretty, but the wit is much oftener rough than ready, and the songs and dancing are dull...