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...baited the hook with capital gains more skillfully than bald, smart Charlie Einfeld, onetime exploitation "genius" at Warner Brothers. In less than six months he had formed Enterprise Productions, signed up enough big name stars for six super epics. Typical was his deal to make Eric Remarque's Arch of Triumph. He landed Actress Ingrid Bergman with a promise of $175,000 in salary, plus half the profits; he promised Remarque 15% of the profits, Director Lewis Milestone and Producer Davis Lewis 10% each...
...whipped through a wrathful House, came before a wrathful Senate. He saw the danger to U.S. tradition in the draft-strikers measure. He also foresaw the political repercussions it would set up. He spoke out in leadership against it, pulled 69 Senators (including all but 13 Democrats) with him. Arch-conservative Bob Taft emerged, to the embarrassment of the Administration and to the surprise of labor, as labor's stern protector...
...great distinction in their rendering of speech or verse. (The musicomedy-sized Century Theater made for hearing trouble.) But they had the main thing-a real Shakespearean robustiousness. In Part I they contrived a fine balance between the historical scenes and the humorous ones, a telling contrast between that arch-romantic and exemplar of heraldic honor, Hotspur, and that arch-realist and epitome of worldly wisdom, Falstaff. And they had for this two brilliant actors...
...Enter to grow in wisdom, but after eleven go around by the main gate." So might be inscribed the granite arch above Wigglesworth Gate. Today this gate stands as a continual source of frustration to the returned men of Harvard who are doomed to live in the Yard...
G.I.s in Paris brought back news of Trenet. Others heard of him in Erich Maria Remarque's Arch of Triumph (TIME, Jan. 28), whose hero listened to Trenet on a taxicab radio. The advance buildup was so good that Trenet was signed by the Embassy Club for what amounts to about $6,500 a week. He is a bachelor...