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...party 2,000 miles to Liberia, only republic in Africa, founded in 1822 as a colony for freed U.S. slaves. There Franklin Roosevelt lunched with chocolate-hued President Edwin James Barclay, toured part of the million-acre Firestone rubber plantation, rode with his Liberian confrere in a jeep to review U.S. Negro troops...
...schoolboy French, sometimes through an interpreter, the two Presidents announced that they were determined to keep the Atlantic Ocean "safe for all," that Africa's Dakar must never again become "a blockade or an invasion threat against the two Americas." And once more the President rode in a jeep-with his Brazilian confrere-this time to review U.S. troops at the Natal air base...
...still takes a small boy's delight in his fans. One evening he rode up to a San Diego camp theater with a general in a jeep, hopped out, swaggered through a crowd of Marines and declared: "I don't know about you fellows, but I'm with the general." Whereupon the general stuck out his chest too, observed: "I don't know about you fellows, but I'm with Bob Hope...
...Paramount, to keep sailor Eddie Bracken from knowing that his father, Victor Moore, is not the studio's head, but its gateman. This indirectly involves such sequences as when the Golden Gate Quartet steals the "Dreamland" number from Mary Martin and Dick Powell, a hilarious ride in a jeep, and a "Swing Shift" number with luscious brown Donna Drake swinging it in a good deal less than a shift...
...appropriate costume, a little number called A Sweater, A Sarong and a Peek-a-Boo-Bang; Rochester (in a zoot suit) and Dancer Katherine Dunham give out with a strutting Sharp As a Tack; Vera Zorina does a veil dance; Betty Hutton, during a wild, bruising ride in a jeep, sings a ditty known as I'm Doin' It for Defense; a shapely crew of aircraft workers sing and dance a number called On the Swing Shift. Bob Hope, closeted with an angry man in a shower bath, is good...