Word: casablanca
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With his cut of the gate ($20,000) and six stitches over his left eye, Marcel Cerdan headed back to spend Christmas with his family in Casablanca. He will return next year, for a probable chance at the middleweight title, and some more Yankee dollars...
...smart errand boy hears a lot, especially if he happens to be the son of a President. F.D.R.'s second son and self-styled errand runner ("I'm the Roosevelt who didn't go to Harvard") undoubtedly heard plenty: at the Atlantic Charter conference, at Casablanca, Cairo and Teheran. How well he remembers what he heard may be something else, as his mother tactfully suggests in her foreword to this book: "I am quite sure that many of the people who heard many of the conversations recorded herein, interpreted them differently, according to their own thoughts...
...Tightrope. Headlines in Paris papers had trumpeted: "Tomorrow the world is going to blow up," and Scientist Robert Esnault-Pelterie had warned that Crossroads might well start a fatal chain reaction. On the appointed Day of Wrath, a load of wooden wine caskets broke loose from a truck in Casablanca, French Morocco, and hollowly thundered on the cobbled street. That touched off riots: thousands of Arabs were sure that the Angel Israfil was summoning them to their doomsday tightrope, whence (so said the Prophet) the damned would fall into hell...
...election day he went to the polls with his grandmother and grandfather, John F. ("Honey") Fitzgerald, onetime Mayor of Boston. Then he sneaked off to a movie, A Night in Casablanca. That night, when returns showed he had beaten his toughest rival in his home territory, grave, earnest, teetotaling Jack Kennedy knew he was in. Rarely has a Republican Congressman been elected from the Eleventh District...
...Night in Casablanca. Even below top form, the maniacal Marx Brothers are funnier than most (TIME...