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Sirs: The artist's sketch of the Senate in the background of the Senator George cover (TIME, July 19) must have reminded others as it did me . . . [that] when we were kids in school we had to listen to what the teacher was saying. We couldn't read or sleep. Maybe we had to listen because our minds were growing and capable of learning...
...which the Bell dramatizes, Paramount's executives have kept an almost divine political detachment. Says Chairman of the Board Adolph Zukor: "It is a great picture, without political significance. We are not for or against anybody." Says Director Sam Wood: "It is a love story against a brutal background. It would be the same love story if they were on the other side." Says Paramount President Barney Balaban: "We don't think it will make any trouble...
...Adams' move was different: his stock is selling near its high for the year, his sales running 20% above last year. And his motivation was right in line with his executive background, first as a key man in the smart, slick advertising firm of Benton & Bowles and then as executive vice president of Colgate-Palmolive-Peet...
Shoulder patches with the varied insignia of the many branches of the army presented in the AST unit are being collected by First Sgt. Isacowitz, who plans to make a placque of the patches. "We want something that will show the wide range of background from which you come," the sergeant said. "You won't be going back to your old outfits anyway so you won't need the patches...
...Background to Danger (Warner) stars George Raft and Sydney Greenstreet as opposing merchants of menace in neutral Turkey. Raft, as a patent-leathery G-man, comes into possession of a "Russian plan to invade Turkey" forged by the Nazis and intended to drive Turkey into Germany's embrace. With these hot documents the fat Gestapo agent Greenstreet would like to warm his hands. But when he gives Raft the third degree on the subject of the papers' hiding place, the G-man is rescued by a Russian agent played by the supersinister Peter Lorre...