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...England's best newsmen; forthright William John Haley, joint managing director of the Manchester Guardian and Evening News, and a director of Reuters, top British news agency...
...browed Bernard Iddings Bell, 56, went to the University of Chicago, was a chaplain at the Great Lakes Naval Station in the last war. Then for 14 years he headed St. Stephen's College, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. With the help of the late Metropolitan Life Insurance president Haley Fiske, and the late vaudeville impresario Edward Albee, Bell raised about a million dollars to revolutionize the St. Stephen's faculty and methods. But the depression spoiled his alans and Columbia University took over :he college, renamed it Bard...
...seems to give subscribers a lot of fun, for every year the flood of their nominations grows greater. But the people who seem to like the idea best are the moviemakers. Gary Cooper played the "Man of the Year" in 1941's "Meet John Doe" ?I think Jack Haley made it too, as The Average American Male in a movie called "Thanks for Everything"?and of course last winter Katharine Hepburn strutted her way through one of her most memorable roles as "Woman of the Year...
...Buster") Haley is a Negro convict who may never get out (he got a life sentence in 1932 for murder), but he is a war worker, too. Recently he wrote a letter to Franklin Roosevelt: "I told him he was just about the best man there is excepting the warden. I told him I wanted to see my boys. My boys are in the Army and I figured they was going to send my boys over the sea. President Roosevelt wrote back and said he'd have the Adjutant General look into it. An' now my boys...
...heavy drama. Top billing goes to Dorothy Lamour and Richard Denning, both well exhibited as Hollywood's handsomest hunks. But the feature performer, the guy who lifts the film out of the Class D league, isn't even mentioned on the program. Much funnier than comic Jack Haley and apparently far more intelligent than the rest of the cast, the pet monkey really stars. With his ability to steal pancakes only equalled by his talent in throwing apples, the half-pint ape has no trouble in making a monkey out of Haley...