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...actress filming a musical version of War and Peace in Paris. In her best song, "Josephine," she is given a little material assistance by Porter; he had descried her in the first act with "There's A Hollywood That's Good," resulting in a number several cuts under the lowliest College musical filler. Had the authors done their share, Miss Adair could stop the show and Miss Neff could keep it going...
...this mild front," says his brother Roy, "but underneath it there's drive, drive, drive." He runs a one-man studio. "When you work here," an employee punned, "you're all Walt in." The studio atmosphere, says a former executive, is one of "compulsory democracy." The lowliest ink-girl calls Walt by his first name. "If we didn't," says one employee, "we'd get fired." Says another: "If you contradict him, you're out. Even the top creators at the studio have to be careful. Nothing is really funny until it's proclaimed...
...atomic bomb requires a higher order of intelligence than die making, but . . . the atomic scientists and Detroit's die makers are links in the same chain. The atomic scientist, for all his education (and probably finer moral development), is no more entitled to obstructionist tactics than the lowliest sweeper in the smallest die shop. We elect men to establish policy. We hire others to carry these policies out. Just who in hell do these physicists think they...
...partisans. A lawyer who prosecutes under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act (act this was the case for which the judicial ruling was made) is not making policy. But the new ruling, applied by future Presidents with less respect for the civil service, could reach down to oust the lowliest government typist, on the grounds that in her own small way her partisan attachments were hampering her work...
Just in time to brighten the holiday season, Canadian servicemen got their first pay raise in two years, an average 9% boost that will make Canada's lowliest enlisted men and its top brass the highest-priced fighting men of their rank in the world. Base pay for the Canadian recruit will jump from $87 to $92 a month. The U.S. buck private draws only...