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...Seriously, when are otherwise sane Americans going to graduate from fifth-grade history of 1775, into a realistic world of today where the bulwark of everything priceless in mankind's struggle upward to attainment of sacred privileges rests precariously on "a tight little island's" defiance of the most obscene attack on them ever witnessed...
Principal cause of Britain's youthful crime wave was the relaxation of grown-up authority. Many a father had gone away to camp, or worked overtime in a war factory. At least half of London's compulsory grade schools had been destroyed by bombs, or converted to other uses. Parents had put their children to work (or taught them to beg) in order to bolster family earnings. With boys' clubs broken up by evacuation, social centres taken over for war work, high-spirited youngsters turned to crime out of sheer boredom...
...labor can expect nothing but a raw deal from defense. The possibility was enough to start a near-panic among coal users, whose average supply last week was enough to last only 34 days (23 days for railroads). They soon found it impossible to get April delivery (on high-grade industrial types), bought all they could get for May and June delivery...
Hollywood claimed Welles never would make the grade. From the moment he arrived there its citizens resented him and his Martians and his youth and his talent. When he grew a beard for his first film, a sporty pressagent sent him a bearded ham for Christmas; while he was dining out one evening, a playful actor cut off his tie with a table knife; columnists dubbed him with nicknames like "Little Orson Annie." At announcements that his first two productions had been called off, the town nodded knowingly. He was just a big bag of publicity...
...Louise," an opperetta with Grade Moore, is the choice of the French Talking Films Committee for this week's French movie. It will be given, as usual, at the Institute for Geographical Exploration on Thursday and Friday...