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Three of Mississippi's nine Democratic electors suddenly announced that they would cast their votes for Harry Byrd, fourth was ready to follow suit. And it was too late, apparently, to do anything much about it. While there was yet time (before September 7), New Dealers had not put a pro-Roosevelt list of electors on the ballot. Mindful of the Texas fracas, Governor Thomas L. Bailey had assured Mississippi that all nine electors promised to support the Roosevelt-Truman ticket. But last week, long after the state's Sept. 7 deadline, the four anti-Roosevelt electors apparently...
Laura (20th Century-Fox), thanks to some slick direction by Otto Preminger and a cast out of the top drawer, is a highly polished and debonair whodunit with only one inelegant smudge on its gleaming surface. In swank settings that cry for a pinch of poison or at least a dainty derringer, the victim is obliged for purposes of plot to have her pretty face blown off by a double-barreled shotgun fired at close range...
...effect deny many soldiers the right to vote. The states and the armed forces were doing yeoman work in getting out the ballot. It was too early to say that the 4,300,000 applications already received would mean that 4,300,000 servicemen were actually going to cast ballots. Some states are less efficient than others; in some states, notably the South, where the servicemen's vote is not crucial, inefficiency may lose some soldier votes. But the great number of applications augured well for a heavy soldier vote. Step 2, a state job-getting the ballots...
From 18 states came estimates that 600,000 ballots have already been cast. Election experts made a guess on the total number of ballots that might eventually be returned and counted: at least 2,300,000. But since some states were mixing soldier and civilian ballots, the exact final total of the armed services' vote may never be known...
Light was cast on this sudden Balkan development by a delayed cable from TIME Correspondent Percival Knauth, giving the first eyewitness account of the Russian occupation of Rumania...