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Impossible Peace. John Lewis has never agreed with Franklin Roosevelt that C. I. O.-A. F. of L. reunion per se is a good & necessary thing for Labor. He had his tongue firmly in cheek when he was pushed into renewing peace talks last February, stuck it in further when he noted in Franklin Roosevelt's "invitation" a scarcely veiled threat to impose peace if none could be found by negotiation. Four weeks after the negotiations bogged down, John Lewis last week announced: "Peace, as such, is a secondary consideration to the organization [of non-union workers...
...been swallowing ever since the third round, when an inch-long gash was opened on the inside of his mouth. Young Nova, unable to wind up the gory performance any other way, kept pecking at Baer's bleeding mouth and eye, kept pummeling his hideously swollen cheek, kept pounding wildly at his wheezing body...
...Lincoln, tall, spare Actor Henry Fonda stayed home nights to read up on the part, acted Lincolnesque on the set and off. During the filming he walked on three-inch stilts built into his boots, wore a rubber buildup on his nose and an applied wart on his right cheek. Director John Ford (The Informer) refused to see Fonda without his makeup, refused to let superProducer Darryl F. Zanuck dabble in the job, turned out, as a result, a jim-dandy piece of Lincoln mythology...
...took ,up precariously perched on the leading edge of the lower wing. Another was Cinemactress Mary Pickford, for whom he played the villain in The Girl of Yesterday, renting himself and his plane for $700 a day. Still another was Musicomedienne Valeska Suratt, who planted three kisses on his cheek after he landed her in front of a crowd in Los Angeles. Blushing Martin ran away, later told newsmen soberly "her air conduct was good...
MURDER MASKS MIAMI-Rufus King-Crime Club ($2). Lieutenant Valcour gets a killer who uses a murderous hypo on two unpopular women-an ultra-respectable old lady and a blackmailing young golddigger. Swift, breezy, tongue-in-cheek tale...