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Selznick's dizzy, gee-whiz advance publicity campaign is spearheaded by Anita ("The Face") Colby (TIME, Jan. 8,1945), and three other I.Q. glamor girls who know how to win friends and influence editors. The girls are already on the road, whooping up the picture's merits and trumpeting the number of Gone With the Wind records already shattered. Some of them: shooting time, eight months and three weeks, about a month more than Selznick's GWTW; extras and bit players, 3,000; nine stars, including Joseph Gotten, Gregory Peck, Walter Huston, Lillian Gish and Jennifer (Bernadette...
...sizable number of atomic books burdened the newsstands.* Few contained anything important or trustworthy which had not already been published in the now-famed Smyth Report (Atomic Energy for Military Purposes; Princeton University Press; $1.25). Some of the new books were sprinkled with palpable errors. Others burbled with the gee whiz tone of popular science. Some gave detailed descriptions of atomic engines for airplanes and automobiles. (Most responsible scientists believe that such engines will not be designed for many years. When finally built-if ever-they will probably not resemble anything known at present...
...tricks. Terry once tried to sell him on the stunt idea. "But what shall I do?" asked Ott. "Anything," said Terry, "do anything. Get drunk . . . disappear ... lie down and roll over when you catch a ball . . . slide home when you hit one out of the park." Replied Ott: "Aw, gee, Bill. I couldn't do that. I'd look silly...
Next morning a Dorchester valet discovered General Bradley up and dressed at 7:30. Said he: "Good morning, sir. My, sir, but you did a lovely job." The General grinned shyly and said: "Gee, it was nice getting back. The doorman, the head porter and clerks at the reception desk were all awfully nice when I arrived last night...
...call reached London without being censored, Kennedy would not say. (He dramatically pledged his Paris A.P. staff to secrecy-"no matter what pressure they bring to bear, even under torture." Moaned one earnest A.P. staffer: "Gee, Ed, I might break under torture...