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Burr (who was actually married and a father at the time),seems to have the inside track until the lady begins to feel the first faint stirrings of political consciousness. Then she recognizes egocentric Senator Burr as the symbol of anti-democratic thinking. Madison, on the other hand, suddenly personifies not only the Will-of-the-People but also True Love. As the wife of Secretary of State Madison, Dolly (Ginger), looking far too regal ever to have been Fred Astaire's hoofing partner, sweeps into the White House to act as widower President Jefferson's official hostess...
Five hours after the crash the plane radioed its position. Search planes of the U.S., France, Italy and Britain took off in the teeth of a howling blizzard. At the end of the second day, a faint message from the survivors was heard in Grenoble: "It is urgent. We want to live." By the third day, more than 100 planes of six nations swooped through the jagged mountain passes, buffeted by gales and dense clouds. Up from Geneva in a B-17 flew Brigadier General Ralph Snavely, whose wife was in the crashed plane, but for six hours bad weather...
...cartooning is topnotch Disney-and delightful. While playing fast & loose with the well-known personalities of Brer Fox & friends, the animators have kept a faint flavor of the old Frost-Conde-Verbeck illustrations. Perhaps Brer Rabbit's happy romps in the Briar Patch do not look quite as gay and wonderful in 1946 as Joel
There was indeed a faint glimmer of enlightenment over the U.N.'s General Assembly last week, and more than an occasional flicker of fraternity. All the week's major subjects were old quarrels, inevitably disinterred, but the U.N. Assemblymen approached them with new determination to have another go at the world's endless agenda of discord...
...purpose, or one hope, of the U.S. occupation of Germany is to teach the Germans the ways of democracy. Are the Germans learning? The ten-man U.S. education mission to Germany, in a 24,000-word report last week, offered faint praise for what had been accomplished so far, faint hope of an early end to the job. The educators (among them American Council on Education President George Zook, Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr) found nothing to "encourage the hope of a quick fulfillment of the responsibilities which our nation . . . has assumed...