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...film opens during the Battle of Britain. Mitchell's former test pilot (David Niven), now a wing commander, tells the story of Mitchell's working life to a group of flyers as they wait for the order to "scramble" into action. Retiring, publicity-hating Reginald Mitchell was no flyer. He was in every sense an artist, whose struggles and triumphs had a solitary character. As a study and an appreciation of that kind of man and that kind of service-which usually lies forgotten for a generation-this film comes notably soon. Mitchell had to fight official inertia...
Baldish, bespectacled, 45-year-old Thornton Niven Wilder made news many times before last week. In 1927 he bounced to fame with his novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey, which sold over 250,000 copies and won the Pulitzer Prize. In 1935 his novel Heaven's My Destination, which he described as "diluted Dante," was a Book-of-the-Month choice and a subject for heated discussion. Then & there forswearing fiction for the theater, he emerged in 1938 with Our Town, whose sceneryless stage flabbergasted Broadway, fetched another Pulitzer Prize...
...what it takes to become a blonde comet. Thus reduced to brains and ability, she has adamantly refused to trick them out with fake publicity. She also persists in her right to lead a private life. When her boss's head publicity man revealed her engagement to Scriptwriter Niven Busch before she had informed her closest friends, Sam Goldwyn had to take her aside and tell her the facts of Hollywood life. Said he: "That private life stuff is all right for a Garbo, but you're no Garbo. You're an average American girl...
Prime Minister Winston Churchill's youngest daughter, Mary Churchill, 18, enrolled as a private in the Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service (WATS), began her anti-aircraft training. Cinemactor David Niven was on leave from his British regiment to make a picture with Leslie Howard about Reginald Joseph Mitchell, designer of the Spitfire. New recruits in the U.S. Naval Reserve : Wendell Willkie's son, Philip, and Dodger Boss Lorry MacPhail's son, William. Cleveland discovered that Pitcher Bob Feller, 22, who had passed his physical examination for the draft, had been taking flying lessons for three weeks...
Married. David Niven, Scottish-born cinemactor and soldier of fortune now serving in a London Rifle brigade; and Primula Rollo, daughter of an R. A. F. officer; in Huish, England...