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...estimates became the basic pattern of the U.S. war effort. By 1942's end, Wedemeyer was a member of Marshall's inner group, a key figure in overall strategy. He had become a general's general. He accompanied General Marshall on all the great conferences from Casablanca through Teheran. He had an important hand in Allied Mediterranean strategy and in the planning of the Normandy invasion...
Divorced. Sarah Churchill, 30, redhaired, green-eyed second daughter of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, British Women's Auxiliary Air Force member, onetime vaudevillian, her father's companion at Casablanca and Yalta; by Vic Oliver, 46, U.S.-naturalized comedian, ex-Austrian baron (Victor Samek); after eight years of marriage (no children); in London...
Minus one ingredient, "To Have and Have Not" would be another and a tiresome "Casablanca"--replete with an opiate air of international intrigue, whispering French restaurant proprietors, and dusky piano--but spicy Lauren Bacall provides the condiment to make the film a tasty, if not tasteful, Bogartian dish...
...Have and Have Not" has little to offer beyond the scope of "Casablanca" except for two memorable characterizations in minor roles. Walter Brennan outrummies W. C. Fields in a sympathetic portrayal of lovingly barflied Eddie,, and Hoagy Carmichael "plays it again" with more stuff than Dooley "Sam" Wilson...
...Office of Censorship, catching up with one small part of the week's rumors, finally admitted that Hopkins was abroad. At the White House, newsmen badgered ex-Newsman Jonathan Daniels, filling in for Steve Early as press chief, reminded him that they had been scooped by London on Casablanca, scooped by Reuters in Lisbon on Cairo, scooped by Moscow on Teheran. Mr. Daniels, harassed but sympathetic, would not even agree with the Office of Censorship that Harry Hopkins was out of town...