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Kaiser's Coffins. Navy officials do not talk, but Navy crews on the Casablanca told hair-raising tales. From some Kaiser ships came reports like these...
...gave a contract to Henry J. Kaiser, who had never built anything more elaborate than a Liberty ship, and the Navy was told to keep hands off. While the Navy glowered and went on building its own escort carriers, the new 480-ft., 4,000-ton babies of the Casablanca class began rolling off the Kaiser assembly lines...
There are some curious variants in cinematic taste. In India recent heavy favorites have been Stormy Weather and Cabin in the Sky, both all-Negro musicals. In the Southwest Pacific the favorite film is Casablanca. Cover Girl, with Rita Hayworth, is a current favorite in Normandy. Documentaries are generally unpopular, but soldiers everywhere want more newsreels, even old ones, because of the glimpses they give of home. Many soldiers prefer old newsreels to new pictures, and a good old film still draws bigger G.I. audiences than a bad new one. In Rome, where a Red Cross movie...
Burden of the Vanquished. Italians who understood the harsh terms of the armistice cried aloud. They complained that anti-Fascist Italians were being done a gross injustice. They declared (with some reason) that the terms had been drafted at Casablanca, when no one foresaw Italy's quick collapse. They wanted Italy to have the full status of a willing cobelligerent and an ally against the Germans. Loudest of the outcries came from the Socialist Avanti's Editor Pietro Nenni. Wrote he: "We in Italy are finding how superficial, summary and empirical are Allied ideas of Europe...
...Elliott's next being Winston Churchill's daughter Mary are unfounded. That he never even met her. The fact is that Elliott's favorite person abroad is a WAC captain." In London, Colonel Roosevelt denied his engagement to Captain Briggs, whom he had met at the Casablanca conference. Back in Wisconsin, Mrs. Rosebush said that any further statement "would have to come from Ruth," after which Ruth, in London, stated: "We are just good friends." Said Elliott: "I have nothing...