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...Tortilla Flat" makes no serious bid for immortality, but an open mind and some patience can find in it one of the happier ventures of the movie-year. Whatever Hollywood publicity may maintain, the name Spencer Tracy is not always synonymous with great acting, or Victor Fleming with spirited direction, or John Steinbeck with irrestible writing; "Tortilla Flat," with all three names, does not quite make the grade of any superlative. So much for immortality...
...long-delayed "Petticoat Army" Bill was close to enactment last week. Even happier than the bill's feminine backers was the Army itself, which wanted to free as many men as possible for combat...
Henry Ford is happier and younger than he was two years ago. He lost his fight against New Deal labor policies; after a strike and a court decision that he had violated the Wagner Act, he signed a contract with the United Automobile Workers last year. But he lost in his own peculiar way: once he had made up his mind, he called in his labor-herder, Harry Bennett, asked what the union wanted. He knew what he wanted. Said Henry Ford: "Why in the hell don't we give it [the union shop and checkoff] to them...
...perhaps happier days were ahead. The Fitness Division was taken over by Paul McNutt's Federal Security Administration. Soon, perhaps, the Office of Civilian Defense could concentrate on civilian defense...
...United Nations to snuggle more closely into bed. "After the victory," he said, "let us remain in the same gallant company to rebuild a stricken world upon the foundations of justice and equality that will secure for us, for them and for all the people of the world a happier, saner and more peaceful future...