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Then he got up and stalked out of the hut, leaving the Communists open-mouthed and stunned. Thus did U.S. Special Ambassador Arthur Hobson Dean call off the deadlocked preliminaries for a Korean peace conference...
...companion feature, The Passionate Sentry, should perhaps have top-billing on the program. Though not filmed in sumptuous color, the picture has Valerie Hobson and Peggy, Cummins to keep all eyes on the screen. An improbable story about a quadrangular love affair set in St. James' palace, it has some of the shies affair set in St. James' palace, it has some of the sophistication and wit typical of good English comedy. George Colt and Niger Patrick held up the male end of the cast...
While filling in for Columnist Bennett Cerf in the Saturday Review, Novelist Laura (Gentleman's Agreement) Hobson discovered that she "adored having a column." Writer Hobson confessed her new passion to the editor of Hearst's Good Housekeeping, who signed her to do nine columns a year. When Columnist Inez Robb of Hearst's International News Service left, by mutual consent, to join Scripps-Howard and United Feature syndicate a fortnight ago, I.N.S. knew just where to turn. Beginning next week, Laura Hobson will do five columns a week for I.N.S. and its clients, titled "Assignment America...
Laura Z. (for Zametkin) Hobson is not entirely new to newspapering. After graduating from Cornell, she went to work as an ad copywriter, then as a reporter on the New York Post, later switched back to advertising. She joined TIME Inc.'s promotion department as a writer in 1934, left in 1940 and began devoting full time to writing fiction. Of her four novels and many short stories, the most successful has been Gentleman's Agreement, which sold more than 1,600,000 copies. As a columnist, Novelist Hobson is still not sure what she will write...
...much to spare." Such exchanges continue with a regularity and plane of wit that is indeed wonderful. The reductio ad absurdum of "Ways and Means," a parasite couple of the international set who induce a burglar to rob their hostess is a pleasant cordial to end the film. Valeric Hobson and Nigel Patrick play the leads...