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...never "hired" by Mr. John Huston as he stated according to your review of Treasure of Sierra Madre [TIME, Feb. 2]. . . . When I was introduced to a certain gentleman - one of the very few genuine gentlemen in the caravan that the Warners shipped to Mexico for their boo-bah-booing there -he looked at me hard and sharp for two seconds and asked: "Suppose you had something to do with that picture in general, or, let's assume, with the music or sound effects, what would you suggest?" After I had talked about four minutes, he interrupted me short...
...screamed jubilant party functionaries. When it was all over, veteran Chicago newsmen knew that a dazzling political star had been born. Wrote Sun & Timesman John Dreiske: "He was a smash hit. There once were those who gloomily opined he should not travel in the same caravan with Paul H. Douglas [Democratic candidate for Senator] because of the danger [that] he would be eclipsed by that brilliant orator. Put away your handkerchiefs. Don't cry for Stevie...
Shocked at the discovery that the Navajo Indians face starvation and even death this winter (TIME, Nov. 3), the nation suddenly began sending them relief. The American Red Cross appropriated $100,000 for "immediate stopgap aid," rushed disaster relief workers to the barren Navajo country. A Navajo Trail Relief Caravan Association gathered up food and clothing in California, started seven truckloads on the way to the reservation. Utah citizens helped too. Congress, conscience-stricken after neglectful years, voted a $2,000,000 relief fund for the Navajo and Hopi tribes...
...hours to get set for the impact. From Miami to Palm Beach, store fronts were boarded up, windows shuttered, shelters made ready. Out of Pahokee, in the Okeechobee farmlands, chugged two evacuation trains, carrying 5,000 refugees. Another 10,000 headed upstate in a bumper-to-bumper auto caravan...
...more reason for a meeting between the two outfits is that it might be a fine football battle. Havens has in his 45 man caravan four ends, five tackles, and five guards, and a formidable center named John Kern who tips the scales...