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...MARCH OF TIME'S first full-length feature, a story of how the U. S. entered and fought World War I called The Ramparts We Watch (TIME, July 29). Reason: since The Ramparts was approved by Mrs. Edna Carroll and her assistant censors in early August, MOT had inserted 900 feet from Baptism of Fire, the Nazis' record of their Polish Blitzkrieg...
...newspaperman in Spain and Germany, engaged Warner's star director, William Dieterle (Pasteur, Zola). Before the picture got into production, the Spanish War was over. Wanger paid Dieterle $50,000, started over again with two MARCH OF TIME radio scripters to tell the story in MOT fashion, then switched back to Sheean. After Hitler invaded Poland, Wanger dumped everything into the capacious lap of Director Alfred Hitchcock. He, together with Charles Bennett, James Hilton, Robert Benchley and Ben Hecht, evolved Foreign Correspondent. Fourteen writers and $1,500,000 away from Personal History, it has nothing to do with Sheean...
...captain, George Polzer, heads the individual batting list in the race for the Charles H. Blair Bat. He has an average of .571 on eight hits in 14 at bat. He was second to Harvard's Ulysses Lupien last year. Polzer also has batted in mot runs, ten, and with a teammate, Ronnie Stillman, has scored the most runs, seven, as well as having gained most total bases, 13. Another Cornellian, Walter Scholl, leads in the competition for the Princeton A. A. Cup, emblematic of league base-stealing championship...
...General Pierre-Jacques-Étienne Cambronne (1770-1842), when called upon to surrender by an English general in the Battle of Waterloo, is supposed to have used a five-letter word (four in English) euphemistically known as le mot de Cambronne...
Although she know Americans in Turkey and mot many on the American Export Liner, Exeter, on the way across, this is Miss Pishmish's first visit to America. When asked what she thought of the feasibility of bringing German student refugees to the United States and to Harvard especially, she reapplied, "Although I am not a refugee, speaking as a foreign student I think it a splendid idea,. I should like to help it possible...