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When war broke out year ago, the duty of the able-bodied members of Hollywood's British colony received plenty of attention. Some thought they should hurry home to enlist, as did handsome, mustachioed David Niven. Loudest blast of the debate came from London last week, where British Producer Michael Balcon snorted "deserters" at the "scores of producers, directors, writers, artists and technicians who have migrated to Hollywood and Manhattan since Munich." Next day came Hollywood's concrete answer: $6,-000,000 worth of British talent, including such performers as Madeleine Carroll, Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, Charles Laughton...
...Consolidated flying boat, the Guba, fitted for tropical exploration, and engaging famed U. S. Pilot Clyde Pangborn to shuttle it back & forth across the Atlantic with three-and-a-half-ton loads of aluminum for British aircraft factories. Pilot Pangborn appeared last week at Oakland, Calif, to enlist other U. S. fliers (between 20 and 40, with 500 hours) as R. A. F. instructors in Canada and as ferry pilots between factories and R. A. F. bases in England. For overseas work the British offered in U. S. money $150 per week, plus $500 bonus...
...undersigned lifelong members of the Democratic Party, are deeply disturbed by the developments at the recent Democratic Convention in Chicago. They constitute the first organized effort in American history to keep the same national administration in public office beyond the historic two-term period. . . . We therefore propose . . . to enlist in your behalf the support of Democrats who believe with us that loyalty to country takes precedence over loyalty to party...
Goaded into action last week by World War II was a motley assortment of U. S. citizens: Tall, well-dressed Governor William H. Vanderbilt of Rhode Island, 38, one of the youngest men to enlist in the Navy during World War I, reported in Washington for a two-week tour of duty with the Naval Reserve...
Last week a trim young woman accosted an Army recruiting officer in New Orleans, said she wanted to volunteer. "I'm sorry," said Captain A. P. Miceli, "but we don't enlist women. Did you mean you want to be an Army nurse?" "No!" said she, "and I don't want to be an infantrywoman and carry a rifle, either. I want to be a hostess on an Army bomber...