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...Paramount, bedeviled by the inexorable disappearance of young leading Hollywood males into the U.S. armed forces, the happiest discovery of Take A Letter is undoubtedly bright, manly MacDonald Carey, whose first cinemappearance (as the tobacco baron) is a bang-up job. Fresh from the corn country (University of Iowa, '35), young Carey moved into his first Broadway role as Gertrude Lawrence's leading man in Lady in the Dark. Paramount, which had previously tested and rejected him, took him when it bought the play. Now it can do nothing but weep over its new find. His draft rating...
JAPAN'S DREAM OF WORLD EMPIRE- edited by Carl Crow-Harper ($1.25). First publication in book form of the Tanaka Memorial, the secret plan for Japanese domination of China (and eventually Asia) which Premier Baron Tanaka presented to the Japanese Emperor in 1927. Though the Japanese have always insisted that this purloined letter is a forgery, Editor Crow, like others who have studied the document, believes that it is genuine...
...BARON LECLERCQ Belgian Minister Buenos Aires...
Probably the most democratic and hardest-working school in the U.S. is the one conducted in Detroit's old Le Baron Body plant by the Briggs Mfg. Co., which switched last year from automobile bodies to planes. In that efficient technical school Briggs executives, plant managers and foremen study side by side with green boy & girl apprentices, old auto workers, Negroes. Briggs executives have a stiffer course, must get 70% on their report cards or be flunked...
Most of the town's physicians took refuge in the city jail, where Governor George Clinton (uncle of De Witt) protected them by ordering out the militia (18 armed men). Statesmen John Jay and Alexander Hamilton, who tried to calm the mob, were stoned. So was Baron von Steuben, who, while pleading with the Governor not to use force, got hit by a brickbat and fell bleeding to the street. Changing his mind about pacifism, he cried: "Fire, Governor, fire!" At the first volley five people were killed, seven or eight wounded...