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Jung Yao. Last month, in Chungking, Liu and 40 other cotton-garbed soldiers climbed, grinning, into a shiny American monster and flew off into the east. It was a jung yao (glorious) day for him. Shanghai was the most wondrous place he had ever seen. Above all, the Japs he had fled and followed for three long years were surrendering as meekly as meadow mice. It was like a dream...
Whatever laughs arise in the darkened Wilbur spring from the wondrous dead-pan of Stuart Erwin, who is the father. Other people walk around the stage as the plot thickens, but he is the only one even mildly out of type. If this is the best George Abbot, one of the best producers around, can do in the way of entertainment, one can see why the Broadway critics are predicting the slow death of the legitimate theater. In silent moments at the Wilbur, one can almost hear the final, choking rattle...
Three years ago this month four of Adam Gimbel's descendants journeyed to the mellow, elm-shaded town of Vincennes, Ind. (pop. 18,228). There they commemorated the 100th anniversary of the opening of Peddler Adam's wondrous "Palace of Trade," with the prediction: "The best 100 years lie ahead." Last week the Gimbel mercantile dynasty proudly ended its best year. The gross for 1944 was estimated at an alltime high of upwards of $190 million. Result: Gimbel's, in fourth place in 1942, is now the leading metropolitan department store chain...
Sirs: I worked with Ernie for five years on the Washington News, and I can testify to his wondrous hypochondria. The standing office gag was to ask Ernie every hour on the hour how he felt. He had only one reply through the years: "Terrible!" And I believe the kid meant it. He always looked it. Congratulations. A really wonderful piece. LEONARD HALL New York City...
...came to Russia. For five months the Germans moved with wondrous speed and dazzling power. Stubborn Voronov stuck to his artillery. There came a time when the Wehrmacht's great blitzkrieg machine stood at the gates of Leningrad, Stalingrad, the Caucasus. Voronov still stuck to his artillery...