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Speeches and Friends. Governor Backer's speech was the more surprising, and perhaps the more significant. This was because his foreign-policy utterances have hitherto been models of political generality; because the Old Guard has fondly regarded him as the most domestic-minded of candidates; because he is from the Midwest, where latent isolationism is supposed to be most deeply rooted. But John Bricker has lately begun to surprise more & more people who have hitherto dismissed him as a personable, amiable man who, though an excellent speaker and administrator, lacks any serious qualifications for the Presidency. Patiently campaigning...
...propaganda for France. Ace Hollywood Scenarist Robert Riskin (It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town), intermittently in & out of London, Washington and Sicily since 1941, managed the OWI film division. Deep in publications & pamphlets: the Viking Press's wealthy president, Harold Guinz-burg, and wealthy George Backer (who was reported to be spending his idle hours translating the Declaration of Independence into U.S. Army officialese...
...Crazy House" tried to toss a plot into the script, thereby only adding to the general confusion. Olsen and Johnson play themselves, supposedly banned from their studio by an irate producer. Undaunted, they form their own company, with Franchot Tone as director and a would-be millionaire as financial backer. Tone, as talent scout, discovers the love interest--Marsha Hunt. In an hour and a quarter of slapstick "humor" and distorted romance, the bedlam increases, until climaxed by the sale of the movie-within-a-movie for over a million dollars (stage money...
...MARCUS BACKER...
...Reader Backer stop wearing PM's heart on his sleeve. Wrote PM's Managing Editor John P. Lewis in an editorial: ". . . The TIME report . . . nailed down the situation and our role in it better than we had been able to do ourselves. . . . 'Hyperthyroid' (take it from TIME) PM . . . appreciates the 'vim' tag but mildly denies 'characteristic shrillness.' Or - maybe I could, be wrong...