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Hopkins can more nearly, and possibly more fairly, be compared to Woodrow Wilson's Colonel House. Like House, Hopkins has been the eyes and ears of a war-time President, roaming the world, attending all the top conferences?Atlantic Charter, Casablanca, Cairo, Teheran and the two Quebecs. But there is a difference. William Allen White said of House: "His daily prayer was, 'Give us this day our daily compromise.'" Hopkins has more imagination, more drive, and, despite his fealty to the President, an innate stubbornness. There is another minor difference: House sought, created and finally landed his job of Presidential...
...Antarctica) that stories based on TIME are appearing in such unlikely papers as Yi Shih Pao of Chungking-En Son Dakika of Turkey, Min Juo Jih Pao of Nanning, Le Combattant (Journal Officiel de I'Association des Anciens Combattants et Victimes de la Guerre du Maroc) published in Casablanca-and even in papers like the Berliner Borzen-Zeitung, Ncues Wiener Tagblatt and the Rheinische-Westfalische Zeitung (which pick up the news from TIME's Stockholm Edition and sneer at the truth...
Sirs: Being unable to find even a trace of glamorous Gertrude [Dirty Gertie of Bizerte] in Bizerte, we extended our quest across the coast of North Africa from the tip of Cape Bon to Casablanca. Our ceaseless searching was finally rewarded at Sidi-Bel-Abbes, headquarters of the French Foreign Legion (in which Ronald Colman fought so many ferocious battles), when we came upon an alluring Arabian astride a motorcycle, who claimed to be the identical girl about whom the celebrated song was written...
Humphrey Bogart, Hollywood's No 1 he-man (To Have and Have Not, Casablanca), announced that he had separated from his wife, ex-Cinemactress Mayo Methot, Bogart, who nicknamed his wife (also his yacht) "Sluggy" and bragged about their many private and public fights in six years of marriage (on their fifth anniversary, he gave Sluggy a rolling pin), kept mum about the reasons. Hollywood newshawks pointed out that Methot was for Dewey, Bogart for Roosevelt...
...Carrie Nation.* But the sea change which Producer-Director Howard Hawks supervised-for the benefit of Humphrey Bogart, Hoagy (Star Dust) Carmichael, and a sensational newcomer named Lauren Bacall (rhymes with McCall)-results in the kind of tinny romantic melodrama which millions of cinemaddicts have been waiting forever since Casablanca (TIME...