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Such countries as Mexico, Colombia and Bolivia, which had led the agitation for a hemispheric Marshall Plan, would benefit hardly at all. Brazil had only coffee and cotton textiles to offer. These were the countries that had cried loudest for U.S. development loans, and would be heard from again at the Bogotá conference next March...
Divorced. By Joan Davis, 35, one of radio's loudest and most expensive comediennes (her contract calls for $10,000 a week): Si Wills, 48, once her vaudeville partner, then writer of her radio scripts; after 16 years of marriage, one child; in Los Angeles...
...critics had their critics. Times Columnist Arthur Krock pointed out that many now loudest in their protests had kept mighty quiet when earlier committees were giving the third degree to the Morgans, Wall Street and the utilities lobby. Daily News Columnist John O'Donnell, sneering at Hollywood's yells of injured innocence, recalled that the brokers and bankers had taken their mauling in stoic silence. Both pundits needed their memories overhauled. They also seemed to be saying that what was bad enough for J. P. Morgan was bad enough for movie characters...
...paradoxical indeed that the very people who bemoan the size of the national debt and have the greatest fear of the Russian "menace" are the ones who are crying loudest for tax relief. Now is the time, if ever, to pay off some of the public indebtedness. The United States can reduce its debt and support the Marshall Plan only if taxes are maintained at the present level. In fact it might even be a wise move to raise them...
...keep Amber stepping, scene after scene had to be chopped out. These gaps have been plugged with some of the loudest cinemusic ever soundtracked-obviously in hopes that audiences literally will not be able to hear themselves think. The scheme backfires in a curious way: with eyes drugged by the Technicolor and ears numbed by the weight of sound, cinemaddicts are in no shape to appreciate the movie's Big Attractions (The London Fire, The Great Plague, The Duel, Amber in Childbirth...