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...main virtue of "The Lady Has Plans" is that while Nazi spies, hidden blueprints and intrigue abound throughout, they are at all times kept subservient to the main aim of being amusing. The result is a lightweight comedy which has Lisbon and the war as a background but no pretensions to social significance. It is, in fact, concerned mainly with the attempts of various espionage agents to uncover Paulette Goddard's back. They think she is a certain woman spy who has had U. S. naval blueprints tattooed on her back, and they spend a good deal of the picture...
...enemies, who abound, admitted that in peacetime Mr. Jones had been a good jinnee from a banker's point of view. As boss of RFC, the Department of Commerce, a dozen other related and unrelated New Deal agencies, he saved many a bank, railroad and factory from the financial junk heap, made money for the Government...
...Buffalo Advertising Club last week heard a Manhattan psychiatrist on the subject of a couple of soap operas, and was he burned up! Clinical studies of such programs are rare, though clinical studies of their listeners abound. Dr. Louis Berg took only a casual interest in soap operas until some of his women patients suffered relapses after listening to them...
...late, newspapers have been noticeably long on mud-slinging in their news and Washington columns, and short on constructive comment from the editorial page. They abound with insidious feature material to imply that because Mayris Chaney has danced in night clubs she is unfit for civilian defense, that because Melvyn Douglas is a Hollywood box-office star we must discount his impressive record as administrator and youth-sponsor, that because Jane Seaver is an acquaintance of Eleanor Roosevelt she is incapable of work in national morale...
...what most other U. S. Representatives would like to be: a Congressman who can afford to play statesman. Towheaded, brainy, Democratic Mr. Walter is a director of the Easton National Bank, a successful lawyer who gets along equally well with Bethlehem Steel Corp. and with Bethlehem workers, who abound in his bailiwick. By conviction ("I believe in it") and vote (for TVA, Wagner Act, etc.) he is a confirmed New Dealer...