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Marlene Dietrich received an accolade from Manhattan's autograph puppies, who rewarded her willingness to sign by adopting her as "Aunt Minnie." Top-ranking non-collaborators, reported the bobby-sox collectors, were "Gruesome Garson," "Gravel Gertie Nissen" and "Break-Your-Arm Benchley...
...virtually everyone thought it would, the socialist CCF Party took another lick ing at the polls this week-this time in Manitoba. In that province's first election since 1941 (and Canada's first since war's end), the Liberal-Conservative coalition of Premier Stuart Sinclair Garson won easily...
...greying provincial leader Seymour James Farmer had raised the banner of a "bold and practical people's program," had charged that the Garson coalition was the "tool of big business." What Manitoba needed, he cried, was a socialist regime like Saskatchewan's. Saskatchewan's CCF Premier Thomas C. Douglas bounded over the border with four of his Cabinet ministers and stumped around rural Manitoba to spread the word...
...Premier Garson's coalition had a running start, with seven members elected by acclamation (without opposition). He needed only 21 more seats to be sure of a majority in the 55-seat legislature. On a warm, Indian-summer voting day, Manitobans marched to the polls in droves, gave him considerably more seats than he needed...
...often, "The True Glory" is impersonal. It deals with masses of men in a gigantic military operation. In one significant way, the Carol Reed-Garson Kanin film admits and seeks to remedy its weakness: with a magnificently written documentary it lets dozens of the millions of common men soldiers of the Western Front speak for themselves--and the colored boy from Atlanta, the Brooklyn boy, the Canadian from Hamilton, the East-Ender fro London and all the rest are "the boy around the corner" in composite...