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...film is less an adaptation of the bathetic whimsey which Essayist Jan Struther made into a best-seller than it is a fresh screen play conceived by Producer Sidney Franklin and four writers around the original. It is played for keeps by an exceptionally good cast. There is scarcely an off-key performance in the picture. Outstanding is womanly Greer Garson's Mrs. Miniver. She had to be, and is, exactly right...
Grumbled Ohio's Senator Taft: "There is hardly a man under 45 who is able to make plans for the future." (Taft's age: 52.) Essayist E. B. White wrote in Harper's: "We are the tough old campaigners-a little puffy round the girth strap, faltering a little at the top step of the long stairway, subsisting on bicarbonate of soda and ephedrine sulphate, our pocketbooks lined with silver and our back teeth with gold, but ready to go forth again to distant peninsulas against old enemies...
Died. Stefan Zweig, 60, Austrian-born novelist, biographer, essayist (Amok, Adepts in Self-Portraiture, Marie Antoinette), and his wife, Elizabeth; by poison; in Petropolis, Brazil. Born into a wealthy Jewish family in Vienna, Zweig turned from casual globe-trotting to literature after World War I, wrote prolifically, smoothly, successfully in many forms. His books banned by the Nazis, he fled to Britain in 1938 with the arrival of German troops, became a British subject in 1940, moved to the U.S. the same year, to Brazil the next. He was never outspoken against Naziism, believed artists and writers should be independent...
Under Editor MacLeish in OFF were other able men: Columnist (now Captain) Robert Kintner; Historian & Essayist Henry F. Pringle of Harper's and Collier's; former Washington Correspondent Ulric J. Bell, of the Louisville Courier-Journal; New York Times Book Reviewer Charles Poore; Columbia Broadcasting System's Vice President William B. Lewis; TIME'S Allen Grover, Chicago Daily Newsman Edgar Ansel Mowrer...
...Alfred G. Gardiner, journalist, essayist, biographer (Pillars of Society, The War Lords, Certain People of Importance, The Anglo-American Future, etc.), was editor of the London Daily News from 1902 to 1919, is now serving as a justice of the peace in Buckinghamshire...