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...Brien caught the public where its heart is. His "So Long, Son" column stuck. Readers' Digest reprinted it. So did a score of lesser magazines, newspapers, house organs. Throughout the U.S., the farewell to Donel was read aloud to women's clubs, schools, Rotary luncheons, radio listeners. Melvyn Douglas, Walter Huston and the Treasury Hour scattered it over the networks. With frankly sentimental fingers, Father O'Brien had twanged a universal string...
...Private Melvyn Douglas was abruptly upped five grades to a captaincy, after seven months in the Army. The cinemactor-proétgé of Eleanor Roosevelt had enlisted at 41, ten months after Congress had raked his appointment as an OCD consultant. He will plug war bonds...
When a producer has a few extra millions that are feeling lonely, he concocts something like "The Crystal Ball." Not unlike the many thousand Melvyn Douglas-Norma Shearer-Joan Crawford-Robert Taylor et al gay sophisticated comedies that Hollywood has created under the categorical title of Ars Gratia Artis, "The Crystal Ball," with the Paulette Goddard-Ray Milland combo, makes a more distinctive showing at the box office than on the screen. Definitely an argument for the $25,000 a year income ceiling...
Quietly into the army as a private went Cinemactor Melvyn Douglas, loudly deplored as an OCD consultant by Congress last February. Into the air corps went Cinemactor Bruce Cabot...
...farmer (Raymond Massey-"We'll choke you with wheat and corn, Adolf, we'll drown you in York State milk"), a mother (Helen Hayes-"I do not say it is just or right to hate. I say we hate you for having caused this hate"), a businessman (Melvyn Douglas-"You can't do business with a man who doesn't know the meaning of a contract"), a laborer (James Cagney-"We're sending you a letter 20 million workers long... written in steel and flame") and a soldier (Private William Holden-"We'll marry...