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...Sell a "Character." But gargantuan sets were easy by comparison with the problem of converting a famously cold and fiercely arrogant intellectual-in the withering jargon of show business, a "character"-into a cinema hero. The makers of Wilson have gentled, sweetened, warmed, simplified and softlighted Woodrow Wilson's complex personality in every way the facts allowed. Their title-role choice of Canadian-born Alexander Knox, largely for his excellent voice, was well-nigh perfect for the purpose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Aug. 7, 1944 | 8/7/1944 | See Source »

Less than a year ago the Navy's utmost effort was an island hop onto New Georgia. In beginning the Marianas campaign the Navy had completed a gargantuan, leap 3,750 miles from its main base at Pearl Harbor to within 1,500 miles of Japan's homeland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Mechanical Man | 6/26/1944 | See Source »

...over at Algiers on Jan. 8, after General Dwight Eisenhower had moved on to the European invasion command in London. What Wilson acquired included some first-class tactical worries, headaching problems of supply, a set of tarnished political problems. All of these and more were wrapped up in a gargantuan geographic command, running from the Turko-Syrian border through the Mediterranean and across Africa to Dakar. Any operation against Europe from Gibraltar to the Dardanelles would be his problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, THE MEDITERRANEAN: Defender of Empire | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

Jimmy wears glasses now ('"for readin' da racin' form'") and his hair, despite violent applications of every tonic known to barbers, has thinned ("I'm known as the surrey with the fringe on top"). But his Gargantuan energy is unabated. Suite No. 472 is never locked. Friends swarm through the place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Jimmy, That Well-Dressed Man | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

Private Life, Public Saturnalia. Dumas' private life became a public saturnalia of love affairs, gargantuan gastronomy, successes in the theater, speculations on the Bourse, financial crashes, perpetual indebtedness from which he sometimes escaped by travels that took him to Russia, Transcaucasia, Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dumas Returns | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

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