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...sense for the part." She is probably the best reader of lines in the business just now; and it appears to pay. Ingrid Bergman's first five U.S. pictures have brought her to an enviable position, which, for better or worse, her present role destroys for her forever. Hitherto people have liked her with the illusion of personal discovery: she has been the most widely recognized unrecognized player in the country. Everybody waited for her Maria with almost unhealthily sharpened interest...
...know of no certainty in war, and that is particularly true of amphibious war. Therefore any mood of overconfidence should be severely repressed. . . . All large and amphibious operations, especially if they require the cooperation of two or more countries, require long months of organization, with refinements and complexities hitherto unknown. In war all impulses, impatient desires and sudden flashes of military instinct cannot hasten the course of events...
...Large forces of German armor and aircraft, hitherto sure signs that the Wehrmacht means business, had gone into action. The Russians said they destroyed or damaged 586 German tanks and 203 German planes the first...
...Francisco longshoremen got a break last week. While waiting for jobs, they could loll around their homes, get their assignments from the radio. Hitherto they had had to keep telephoning hiring halls to find out what was up-their vital war work suffered from a lot of telephonic confusion...
...pleasant change was inaugurated by FCC, which relaxed one of its most cherished regulations, authorized San Francisco station KYA to use point-to-point transmission to dispatch the longshoremen. Point-to-point is a signal beamed directly at persons or places. FCC has hitherto forbidden broadcasters to use it because it invades the territory of telegraph, telephone and other communication companies...