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Arthur W. ("One-Man Army") VVer-muth, who moved from wartime heroism to peacetime girl trouble to obscurity, reappeared in the news on skates, looking like a one-man hockey team (see cut). He was now taking a flier at goaltending for a semi-pro team in Wichita...
...spokesman at Communist State headquarters in Boston professed ignorance of the flier, asserting that he was not in charge of the Party's college movement. The office's Boylston Street address was the same one listed for the "Student Branch" in the hand-bill...
Connecticut Congressman John Davis Lodge's good-looking, exactress wife, Francesca Braggiotti, who has been teaching health-dancing to other Washington ladies (TIME, March 17) took a flier in another field, gave instructions to girl delegates to the American Legion School of Democracy. "My definition of character," said she, "is the ability to say no to yourself. Don't run your motor too hard, girls...
...promised to put $10,000,000 into the line, had turned over half of it. But in the first three months of this year, T.W.A. stands to lose some $3,300,000. And T.W.A. would probably not get the second $5,000,000 from Hughes until May. No flier liked to come quite that close to the trees...
David Niven has chosen an admirable vehicle for his return to the American screen after a six-year absence, and he does full well by his opportunities as the flier on borrowed time. Kim Hunter, a newcomer, is equally well cast as the WAC. Her fresh and youthful appearance, unretouched by Max Factor, could serve as an object lesson in natural casting for American producers. Marins Goring, Roger Livesey, and Raymond Massey are other highlights of a cast entirely above reproach. Hollywood was well advised to exclude foreign productions from the Academy Award competition; if "Stairway to Heaven...