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...background was tiny, shy, astonished Mrs. Willkie, of whom Indiana Congressman Charles Halleck, Willkie's nominator, remarked admiringly: "She's plain vanilla." Anxiously she watched her husband sweat through shirts every few hours, while his broad face grew haggard, the shadows under his eyes dark, his smile strained. At one conference he almost collapsed, was rushed off to bed. He slept an hour, came back for more...
...fourth war front, radio propaganda, anything goes. From France refugee Cinema Director Max Ophuls has been conducting a vicious, satirical aerial bombardment of Germany. Ophuls' barrage, according to Variety last week, is directed specifically for the Führer's ears. Against a background of soft music and the monotonous ticking of a metronome, a voice drones...
...little ballet dancer who could do entrechat six (Nijinski could do ten), she dominates each scene with an almost flawless performance. Every half smile, every sidelong glance, every toss of her head, every movement of her hands makes the supporting cast sink further and further into a vague, formless background. But as for you, Mr. Goldwyn, by decking out Bob T. in that new trick mustache, you've shattered one of our fondest illusions...
...General Laws are being violated by the Russell contract. Citing a decision handed down by the eminent Chief Justice Shaw of Massachusetts in the case of Sherman v. Inhabitants of Charlestown in which a 17 year old girl was barred from the public schools because of her moral background, Dorgan points out that the case is not only applicable to teachers as well as to students but that it also applies to Harvard as well as to the public schools...
...dormousy Edward Pountney, was in court to defend the suit. He pleaded "fair comment" under the British Press Law, but no sooner had the trial started than it became obvious that the T. U. C. leaders were determined to expose what they claimed was the Worker's Muscovite background. Sir Walter testified that in the first fortnight of the war the Worker suddenly changed its policy of supporting Labor against Hitlerism, began calling the war imperialistic. Who ordered the change? "Moscow," said Sir Walter Citrine. Who financed the Worker to the tune of ?2,000 a month? "Moscow," said...