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This question, addressed to Price Boss Leon Henderson at a press conference last week, brought forth a belly laugh in the best-natured Henderson manner. (The Price Boss has a great talent for Falstaffian waggery: he looks good on a Victory bicycle, sounds wonderful on Information, Please.) It also brought...
Cairo (M.G.M.) is an ingenious spy picture which engages in a lot of good-natured spoofing of the standard Hollywood thriller. Robert Young (sent to cover the war in Africa because he is a typical "smalltown reporter"), Reginald Owen (a Nazi Intelligence officer posing as a British Intelligence officer), Edward...
The following is from my son's last letter: "These Negro boys I have under me are really a swell lot, hardworking, good-natured, and thoroughly cooperative. I was worried at first as to how they might respond, but am sincerely satisfied that I am getting good results.
The greatest U.S. victories in Africa last week were political rather than military. They followed months of shrewd State Department maneuvering (see p. 75). It began in the winter of 1940, when worldly, good-natured Robert Murphy, U.S. Counselor of Embassy at Vichy, was sent to Algiers as a supersonic...
Production Boss Donald Marr Nelson's "get tough" policy had landed him in a cyclone center. Good-natured Donald Nelson had brought some really tough men into the high councils of his War Production Board (TIME, Sept. 28). Now he found that they were much tougher than he-and...