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...heroine, Penny Parker (Susanna Foster) frequently climbs out of herself in double-exposure to step into her dream life (a series of low-budget production numbers in a light operatic vein). Her waking existence involves a rich theatrical playboy (Franchot Tone), the youthful owner (David Bruce) of an all-night diner and six ill-clad orphans who play it for pathos. Susanna Foster wades into her role with breathless enthusiasm, bubbling and flaring as the script demands. Her ardor is not shared by Franchot Tone, who goes about his post-adolescent lovemaking with one eye on the lady...
Would you care to know what irks me most about TIME? . . . It is a statement like the following [TIME, Sept. 3]: "When Soong talked tough, as he often did in the seven all-night conferences, Russia knew that Soong was not bluffing. Stalin, who likes straight talk, liked Soong...
What China Gets. In his bargaining with Stalin, China's Soong of course had few real military chips to put on the table. But on major issues he did have U.S. support. When Soong talked tough, as he often did in the seven all-night conferences, Russia knew that Soong was not bluffing. Stalin, who likes straight talk, liked Soong...
Died. Francis T. Maloney, 50, New Dealing senior U.S. Senator from Connecticut; of a heart attack; in Meriden. In 22 years, he rose from counterman in an all-night lunchroom to city editor of the Meriden Record, to Mayor, to Congressman, to U.S. Senator. He had become known as an able though infrequent orator, a "Senator's Senator...
...revealed that from September 1939 up to September 1944 he has written 520,000 words, all original and all extremely funny, often in the worst possible circumstances. Sometimes they have been written with influenza during all-night air raids, and sometimes with just influenza. In the winter they have been written with no coal . . . and in the summer either in a cloud of wasps or (as in the summer of 1944) in a cloud of wasps and a nonstop bombardment by flying bombs. During the raids there was the ever-present anxiety that the local [pub] had been hit, thus...