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From London arrived Norway's big, jovial, realistic Foreign Minister Trygve Lie (rhymes with me). His mission: 1) to sound out Russian intentions in Norway where the Red Army is fighting in the north; 2) to ask what Norway's new neighbor, Russia, expected in the way of Norwegian good neighborliness...
Died. Edward James McNamara, 60, jovial actors' actor; of a heart attack; in Boston. A Paterson (N.J.) policeman and baritone, Mac toured the" U.S. with Schumann-Heink, was one of Caruso's few pupils. In Broadway's Strictly Dishonorable, he was typed for all time as Patrolman Mulligan, ad-libbed two of the play's best lines. When Muriel Kirkland observed that she thought policemen never drank, Mac remarked, "It only seems like never," later made his exit promising to use his nightstick "only in case...
Buckeye State. Ohio swept out the Republican (Ed Schorr) machine, swept in a new kind of Democratic politician: gangling, idealistic, good-government crusader Frank Lausche, 48, mayor of Cleveland. A party independent, Frank Lausche beat a party hack, James Garfield ("Jovial Jim") Stewart, longtime mayor of Cincinnati and roly-poly, flag-waving, glad-handing master of political clich...
...first championship match (U.S. women's pairs); within five years she married Sobel. He soon acknowledged himself worsted, gave up tournament play and turned his attention to revising bridge laws and to his job as executive tournament manager of the American Contract Bridge League. Once a year, handsome, jovial Al Sobel plays with Mrs. Sobel in the New York City married-jouples match, for the Mr. & Mrs. A. M. Sobel trophy. In 1943, out of 40 teams, the donors finished seventh...
...Between Two Worlds" achieves a dramatic excellence that hits you between the eyes at only one point--where big and jovial Sidney Greenstreet as the Examiner interviews the applicants for admission into the Beyond. While a false air of attempted spiritual tone ruins the atmosphere in most of the rest of the movie, here Greenstreet does an inspired...