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Among its varied villains, Walter Slezak is outstanding as the sly, slippery, fat one. As the deadpan tough guy, Dick Powell is more acceptable than he ever was as a tirelessly boyish cinemusical crooner. As a thriller-a cinema form which Hollywood often does expertly-Cornered is head-&-shoulders above the average...
...Government financial institutions last week got transfusions of fresh blood. To the $10,000-a-year chairmanship of the Export-Import Bank, fellow Missourian Harry Truman named boyish, earnest William McChesney Martin Jr., 39, onetime Wonder Child of Wall Street. The $48,000-a-year president of the New York Stock Exchange from 1938 to 1941, Martin was drafted into the Army as a private. By war's end he was a full colonel...
Emily Harm's boyish-looking Major Charles Boxer, 41, finally arrived in Manhattan from Hong Kong, ran from a plane into her arms, posed with her and their four-year-old daughter, Carola. As the Major got news from Britain that his wife, Ursula, had finally divorced him (Miss Hahn considered herself divorced from her onetime Chinese companion, Sin-may), the well-publicized couple planned to make it legal this week...
Since American morality seems to be ebbing fast, the story of the paratroopers who held up a German cafe [TIME, Sept. 24] may be regarded by many as a boyish prank. Let them note that this is but one of countless incidents (the majority unpublicized), perpetrated by G.I.s and U.S. officers, that have reduced U.S. prestige in Europe. . . . For a good 45% of the uniformed men over here seem to believe in their own generation that they belong to the master race and some of them conduct themselves like amateur SS troops...
...tied, boyish Frank Sinatra gave his listeners just what they had tuned in for: he mooned his way through My Melancholy Baby and I Fall in Love Too Easily. Then, as is his custom, the swoonmaster turned schoolmaster to lecture his charges about a "very, very important subject known as tolerance." The subject seemed to have quite a lot to do with Frankie, too. He gave his bobbysox listeners an earnest preview of a film short he had just made, and of the kind of thing they can expect from him every few weeks in his Old Gold radio show...