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...like a rough-riding Valkyrie. She descended on Berlin via the airlift, sitting on bags of coal. She slept in Hitler's airraid bunker, interviewed General Clay, went shopping with a German hausfrau on the Kurfurstendamm. In Munich's America House, where she made a speech, Correspondent Esther Van Wagoner Tufty caused the biggest stir of all. "They thought I was Emmy Goring!" said she. "I must say I resented that. Hell, she's at least ten years older than I am." All this she reported in her homy, wish-you-were-here dispatches...
Washington Story. A Brünnhildean blonde, 52-year-old Esther Tufty is no word wizard. But rival reporters respect the egocentric energy with which she has built one of the busiest news bureaus in Washington...
...Crowninshield saga was bound to suggest a novel to somebody, some day. The Running of the Tide, by Esther Forbes (Book-of-the-Month for October and winner of one of the 1947 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer $150,000 novel contests...
...RUNNING OF THE TIDE (632 pp.)-Esther Forbes-Houghton Mifflin...
...Island with You (MGM) is a harmless little hot-weather cooler, filmed in a watery Technicolor haze. Sarongs are worn by the girls (Esther Williams, Cyd Charisse) and summer whites by the men (Peter Lawford, Jimmy Durante). The story, all about the warmed-over infatuation of a Navy pilot for a movie star he met on a U.S.O. tour, was also meant to be air-conditioned, but it gets a bit humid. Swimmer Williams should not have been asked to impersonate a film actress, but in her aqua-ballets and posturings in a bathing suit, she is a fine sight...