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...article headlined: THE ELECTION OF ROOSEVELT GUARANTEED. It is said that the core of Dewey's Republican staff had "pro-Fascist, pro-German ties"; and that with campaign "failure imminent . . . Republicans in despair might resort to a big adventure." The "adventure," it said, might well be a fake last-minute assassination plot against Dewey, with the Communists, of course, blamed for it. Thundered Izvestia: "History includes a number of such insolent, crude provocations on the eve of parliamentary elections in democratic countries, up to the burning of the Reichstag in Germany...
...Doughgirls (Warners) tardily, joins the overcrowd of comedies about overcrowded Washington, with more than the usual number of fake marriages, misunderstandings, eccentric bit-players, and mirror mazes of French-farcically-slamming doors. Doughgirls Ann Sheridan, Alexis Smith and Jane Wyman and would-be Husbands John Ridgely, Craig Stevens and Jack Carson, are joined in their already overflowing "bridal" suite by such incongruities as 1) an exuberant Russian lady sniper (Eve Arden), who insists on firing three-gun salutes out the window, 2) a pompous bureaucrat (John Alexander), who is investigating a process for turning soy beans into auto fuel...
...Boston accent, he chattily lets drop the fact that wounded Sergeant Cole is from Atlanta. A pretty little German nurse promptly knocks Cole's guard down by confiding that she has just finished Gone With the Wind. Enamored, he never suspects a thing when she produces a fake Red Cross form and gets him to fill in his unit's number and its base (Naples...
Both Allied Armies found the Germans using mines so profusely that even veteran troops were amazed. Fifth Army soldiers reported meeting an increasing number of young Germans given to crafty tricks like fake surrender. Complained one lieutenant: "I don't know what the hell has got into them these last few days...
...Greatest Snoozepaper." Few days before, the Tribune had been soundly clubbed by the Hearst-owned Herald-American, which had scooped the "World's Greatest Newspaper" on the diary of a young divorcee, dead apparently by her own hand. Surveying the bathetic series (Title: "Me"), the anguished Tribune roared, "Fake." Smirked the Herald-American: "The World's Greatest Snooze-paper...