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Then came the big break. Loss persuaded Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to make a $1 million horse opera called Gallant Bess in Cinecolor. Due for release this week, M-G-M expects it to be the "sleeper" (surprise hit) of the year. Result: Cinecolor is now booked solid until July 1947, expects to make its first profit this year, about $200,000 net. By the end of next year, Cinecolor expects to be printing 100 million feet of film a year, about half Technicolor's normal production. It also expects to turn out three-color films, with a new simplified...
Competing for prizes given by the sponsors of the program will be Miss Katherine Murphy, Robert W. Gallant '44, and Harvey L. Thomas '44, Housing Office employees, and Mrs. Arthur Swanson, wife of a Business School student veteran living in Jarvis Court...
Last week, Congress also sent to the White House measures providing for: ¶ A special Medal of Honor award to aged (85) General of the Armies John J. Pershing (belatedly, for services in World War I, and for "gallant and unselfish devotion to ... the preparation for and prosecution of World War II"). ¶A standard 12.5% royalty on gas & oil leases on the public domain, instead of varying rates now negotiated-assailed by ex-Secretary Ickes as "further enrichment [of the oil companies] at the public expense...
Among the first to acknowledge the gay courage shown by the Bavarian society ladies (who have been through so much these last years) are the gallant young U.S. lieutenants, captains and majors. Their uniforms add to Tegernsee parties that touch of martial color for which Bavarian society has ever been distinguished...
...Correspondent Gray has done it-at last [TIME, June 10]. We who lived in the backwoods of China (Kunming) during the war were well aware of the situation. The corruption of Kuomintang officials was evident throughout the war years, when Americans at home were waxing sentimental over the gallant Chinese. . . . The bouquets have always belonged to the paddy farmer, the coolie, and the ordinary little soldier whose courage, in the face of the decadent regime under which they were forced to live and fight, was the truly fine thing about the China we knew...