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...Three of these sketches-of General Tasker Bliss and Commissioner Henry White at the Versailles Peace Conference, and of Marconi receiving the first transatlantic wireless message in Newfoundland -are models of their kind, written with the sense of history that makes both the characters and the moment live. The full-length portrait of Woodrow Wilson, whom Baker served at Versailles as the Peace Commission's press director, is masterly...
...Three Caballeros (Disney-RKO-Radio) is that rare event, a Disney failure. Like Saludos Amigos ('TIME, Jan. 25> 1943)> this full-length film was made in the interests of hemispheric good will. The good will is entrusted chiefly to Donald Duck, who expresses it in terms of an alarmingly incongruous case of hot pants. Thanks to an ingenious but seldom very rewarding blend of drawings and regular color-movies with living actors, Donald whizzes from one Latin American beauty to the next like a berserk bumblebee. Since he remains at base a combination of loud little boy and loud...
Before the U.S. business year of 1944 was well into its second half, it was already on its way to becoming a museum piece. In August President Roosevelt commissioned a full-length statistical portrait of the year. He asked that the regular Census of Manufactures, scheduled for 1945, be moved up to 1944: "The record should include an account of our industrial system while it is geared up for maximum production. This may well be the peak year of production for many years to come...
...Eleanor Roosevelt, shepherding a group of women reporters through the White House, showed them, in the President's study, a full-length portrait of herself, done by a man who had seen her just twice?at parties, years ago. Mrs Roosevelt, who never poses for portraits, said the painting was so extremely pretty she disliked it, added: "I would like to burn it some day, and I probably shall...
...gazing into the last exhibit, a plain, full-length mirror: It's a good thing that woman behind me doesn't know how funny she looks...