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Recognition of what Britain faced overhead was expressed last week in one more shake-up of her defense command. Brave but inflexible General Sir Edmund Ironside, 60, was eased upstairs with the rank of Field Marshal, to make way for Lieut. General Sir Alan Francis ("Wizard") Brooke, 57, as Commander in Chief of the Home Forces. General the Viscount Gort, Commander in Chief of the B. E. F., unassigned to a new high post since his return from France, was made only Inspecting General of Forces for Training, while to replace Sir Alan as field commander in the south...
...World War I, General Brooke invented a barrage map for directing artillery fire which came into wide use. He is called Britain's best-informed tank and anti-tank man, "Wizard" because his knowledge of gunnery is so well-rounded he is also an anti-aircraft ace. Spectacled, dark, pinched, with a close-clipped mustache, he looks more like a "City" broker than the soldier-sportsman that he is (in the Army since 1902). His fox-hunting Irish father was Master of the Pau pack (supposed descendants of hounds with which Wellington's officers hunted in Spain...
...much of his life on Paris park benches, scribbling on scraps of paper which he filed in his tattered pockets. When one batch of scraps was collated, it turned out to be a fantasy about U. S. Inventor Thomas Alva Edison. In Adam's The Future Eve, "le wizard de Menlo Park" meditates and mourns that his phonograph was invented too late to record the really great sounds of human history -the blaring of the trumpets of Jericho, Memnon's sigh to the dawn and "the superb whisper of Creation itself: Fiat...
...Bolger stole the show in "On Your Toes." He stole the show in "The Wizard of Oz." He can now be seen stealing the show at the Shubert. Flicking his gawky legs about the stage with more finesse than ever before, second-billed Bolger is farther out in front than the Dodgers after their first ten games...
Died. Carl Bosch, 65, head of the German dye trust, chemical wizard (Nobel Prize: 1931); in Heidelberg. He developed the process of making synthetic nitrates (for fertilizers and explosives) which made it possible for Germany to fight through four years of World...