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Humphrey Bogart, Hollywood's favorite Dead End kid (45), made it official: he will marry slow-burning Cinemactress Lauren Bacall, 20, his co-star in two pictures (To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep). When: as soon as his third wife, Mayo ("Sluggy") Methot, serves her six weeks Reno residence for a divorce. Where: the Ohio farm of friend Louis Bromfield...
...anyone else in WPB or the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion, intends to short-change the armed services. But the sudden cutback in planes has made both WPB and OWMR wary. From now on, Army demands will be currycombed as never before. Said one OWMRster: "If just one kid is killed in the Pacific for lack of any weapon, then we've failed in our jobs. But we don't see any sense in arming every doughfoot with five machine guns if he can shoot only one. That might wreck our chances of orderly reconversion...
...better keep a fire extinguisher handy because this is going to burn you up. You had a lot of nerve writing what you did about Errol Flynn (TIME, Feb. 12). The only reason I take TIME magazine is because our teacher makes us. I wasn't the only kid that got mad over that article...
Money Talks. Hardheaded, hard-fisted William L. Clayton made his first major pronouncement since he became Assistant Secretary of State in charge of U.S. economic policy. With a refreshing scorn for diplomatic doubletalk, he told the Latin Americans not to kid themselves about that policy in the postwar world...
Pops Foster pounded the bass drum with numerous New Orleans marching bands, but later shifted to his present instrument, string bass, when he joined Kid Ory's Band in 1910. Since then Pops has appeared with Louie Armstrong, Luis Russell, and nearly every other outstanding colored orchestra. Fred Moore on drums and Hank Duncan at the Piano add a touch of youth to the Bechet group. Both grew up in the '20's-those glorious days of prohibition--and have gained fame only recently after leaving the Crescent City to appear at various New York bistros...