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...personal challenge and adventure in the flying business is the record-seeking light-plane pilot. Last week Minnesota-born Max Conrad, 57, bumped onto the runway at El Paso's International Airport after soloing a little Piper Comanche a nonstop 6,911 miles across the Atlantic from Casablanca in 56 hr. 26 min., thereby breaking a record in his weight class...
Something Added. In accordance with U.S. policy of auctioning off instead of carting away unwanted supplies, the Air Force last summer sold 40 tons of surplus airplane lubricating oil to a Casablanca dealer. The dealer then sold the oil to 25 cooking-oil merchants of Meknes, Fez and Casablanca, who posed as garage owners. The merchants mixed the bargain-price lubricating oil with olive oil in a 1-to-4 ratio that enabled them to boost by 75% their profit on the cheap cooking oil that the poorest Moroccan families use. Ready to cheat, if not perhaps intending what happened...
...behind such misfortune? Some Tangerines blamed the King's act on jealous Casablanca merchants. Others insisted it was a British plot to divert trade to Gibraltar, or a French plot to force Tangier into the franc zone. The explanation accepted by most Tangerines was simpler. To the passionate, doctrinaire leftist politicos of Morocco, Tangier is a monument to foreigners, a corrupt, unclean, anti-Moroccan place that must be cleaned up and cleaned out. Let moviemakers find sinister backdrops elsewhere...
...commanding in character and performance was Marshall that even the supremely self-confident Franklin Roosevelt deferred to him, never first-named him. Marshall was at Roosevelt's side at all the momentous Allied wartime meetings-Quebec, Cairo, Casablanca, Yalta. Roosevelt consistently backed his Army...
...tycoon Larrabee, Bogart has the appropriate earthiness that was last seen in Robert Ryan's portrayal of Gatsby. He is very good in the role. (Casablanca addicts will probably get a kick out of seeing Bogie sailing with his girl on the Sound and humming Boola-Boola...