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...Senate's Truman Committee called in Kaiser and gave him a Hobson's choice: to reorganize plant management, ie., to take over Brewster production himself, or resign from the board. Reluctantly, Kaiser took over. Said the miracle man glumly: "It's not an alluring prospect to take over what's reputed to be the worst situation in the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANAGEMENT: Haunted House | 10/18/1943 | See Source »

Tartu (Robert Donat, Valerie Hobson; TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Oct. 11, 1943 | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

Tartu (Robert Donat, Valerie Hobson; TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Oct. 4, 1943 | 10/4/1943 | See Source »

Tartu (Robert Donat, Valerie Hobson; TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Sep. 27, 1943 | 9/27/1943 | See Source »

...these exciting shenanigans Donat is supported by Valerie Hobson as the politically ambiguous darling of several Nazi big shots, by an incisively cast crowd of Nazis, saboteurs and undergrounders, and by pacing as shrewdly varied as that of a roller coaster. Miss Hobson, besides being a sensible actress, is one cinemactress who can really be described as beautiful. As the gigolesque Iron Guardist, rococo Robert Donat turns in one of the best performances of his career. All Tartu needs, to be a classic of its kind, is the sort of razor-edged melodramatic and psychological inventiveness which belongs to Alfred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 20, 1943 | 9/20/1943 | See Source »

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