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...southern doorstep of Japan's homeland, and down through the westernmost reaches of the Pacific, Admiral William F. Halsey's U.S. Third Fleet bombed and maneuvered with unprecedented power and dash. The Japanese had no difficulty reading the signs...
...wired the magazine, asking whether she was available. The answer came fast, on the Hawks's doorstep, in person. In May 1943 Miss Bacall signed a contract with Hawks; this was shared by Jack Warner as soon as he saw her screen test, a bit of Claudia. The test alone is proof of her abilities; for Lauren Bacall (as I seen in To Have and Have Not) to make even a mediocre stab at such a role is like Tom Dewey's successfully impersonating Lincoln...
Chicago's blue-eyed, sallow Superintendent of Schools William Harding Johnson lives in the six-room lower half of a two-family house in the Rogers Park section of Chicago's North Side. Last week a dynamite bomb shattered his rear doorstep. It was, said the police bomb squad, "no amateur...
...equilibrium. Parents retorted that to send their children to the appointed schools often meant sending them farther from home than before. Some 10,000 families sabotaged his plan by organizing mass hookey. Indignation meetings sent delegations buzzing to Johnson from all sections of the city. When his back doorstep was blown up, he had been ducking an Illinois Superior Court subpoena for two days...
...Russian plan "realism" or cynicism? Earlier indications had been that Russia did not take the conference very seriously. For one, she seemed to think the conference could have been held earlier or else postponed until later. Right now there were pressing problems right on her doorstep-Poland, the Baltic States and even the disposition of German territory. Secondly, she had disappointed the U.S. and Britain by choosing 35-year-old Ambassador Andrei Andreevich Gromyko to head her delegation. Yet on his arrival this week, fresh from Moscow, Ambassador Gromyko was "most optimistic" about the conference's success...