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Chief reason for the September boom was a whirlwind campaign by the motion-picture industry. Hollywood went bond selling as only Hollywood can-with publicity, stunts, and pretty girls. No. 1 bond-seller was Paramount's limpid-eyed Dorothy Lamour, who left her sarong in Hollywood and knocked them...
Optimism. General Sir Archibald Wavell reported on his recent inspection trip to Assam and Bengal, the northeastern provinces where a Japanese invasion is threatened when the monsoon rains end in mid-October. Optimist Wavell compared Japan to a boa constrictor which has swallowed a goat and has to have time...
Sopranos Frances Alda, Lillian Nordica; Tenors Alessandro Bonci, Charles Hackett, Edward Johnson.
Nor are decisions of global politics and global strategy made in the Cabinet. Perhaps it is just as well. Franklin Roosevelt has never shown a disposition to surround himself with strong men in high positions. His Cabinet looked weak even in peacetime. Now, least of all, do most Americans want...
Season's biggest sale at Parke-Bernet was 18th-Century British Painter John Hoppner's Portrait of Miss Frances Beresjord (see cut), bought for $39,000 by the famous art-dealing firm of Duveen's. It was lavishly topped, however, by the season's record high...