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...following from Lael Laird, TIME correspondent in London, tells how U.S. soldiers in England are getting...
...picture is complete today without its ring of sinister saboteurs, and "This Gun For Hire" has its share of them, headed by hulking Laird Cregar, who again manages to turn in an effective characterization of a refreshingly unstereotyped villain. There's a love interest, too, with Preston Foster and Veronica Lake as the involved parties. Ladd doesn't win the girl-he doesn't even try-but he does win a whopping head-start as Hollywood's best discovery in years...
Because of censorship nothing was printed at the time about Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov's historic, incognito visit to England. TIME'S Correspondents Stephen & Lael Laird, cabled this description of the visit from London last week...
...Harrigan, Lisbon, N. H.; Robert D. Hill, Wilmore, Ky.; John A. Holabird, Jr., Chicago, Ill.; Quentin M. Hope, Cambridge; John W. Hursh, Duluth, Minu.; Robert A. Keller, Cleveland Heights, O.; Leif L. Kunden, Columbus, Ind.; Robert W. Komer, St, Louis, Me.; Herbert J. Komer, New York City; Joseph H. Laird, Dearborn, Mich; Murray A. Lampert, Kew Gardens, N. Y.; William Land, Mattapan...
...elimination is a handsome, green-eyed youngster named Alan Ladd, billed as The Raven. A hired killer, he likes his work, and is not above saying so. Having polished off a blackmailer and his moll before breakfast he returns the stolen poison-gas formula to the chemical-company executive (Laird Cregar) who paid him to get it that way, and submits to one question: "How do you feel when you are doing a job like this?" Says The Raven, without batting an eye: "I feel fine." Before The Raven finally meets his maker and cashes in his sins...