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Skinny, bushy-haired James Anderson of Port Arthur, Texas was one of the thousands of U.S. soldiers who spent more time during the war pushing a mop than firing a rifle. He never won any medals, but last week it began to look as though his old G.I. mop had brought him a share of both fame & fortune...
...movie's heroine, Susan Hayward, has been nominated for the best actress of the year. The manager of the Astor Theater is happy: not only is his theater well-filled even on afternoons, but his floor is so well-washed with tears that it must need only a dry mop at the end of the day. And, of course, the audience this film has found is happy: they must be telling their friends that "My Foolish Heart" is like a beautiful soap-opera come true...
After New York, Rodzinski had gone to Chicago. He had lasted one year. Last week, after eleven guest conductors in two seasons, the Chicago Symphony Association voted its baton to a relative newcomer to the U.S.: mop-haired Czech Conductor Rafael Kubelik, 35, who made a hit as a guest conductor last fall (TIME...
Since the war, bloodstained melodramas full of brutality and violence have been especially popular on the U.S. screen. Last week Britain's Board of Film Censors sternly warned Hollywood-and producers elsewhere-to mop up the gore or have offending films scissored to bits and possibly banned outright...
...time after the second round of his ten-round exhibition fight with Pat Valentino in Chicago last week, Joe Louis could have knocked his stumbling opponent out. Instead, the retired champion nursed the mop-haired San Franciscan along with blood-drawing lefts until the clock showed 2:45 of the eighth round. Then, as if on cue, he hit Valentino with a vicious left hook and a chopping right, neatly dropping his victim in front of the ringside seat of new N.B.A. Heavyweight Champion Ezzard Charles. Murmured Charles, who had finished Valentino in eight rounds himself last October, "Man, that...