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...mean to condemn the picture by pointing out that it is not particularly new. It isn't, but if you liked Mr. Roberts and the gizmo seenes in White Suit, and especially if you like Gary Cooper, You're in the Navy Now (nee Teakettle) is a fine, funny picture. I like all three...
...Including a deliberate mispronunciation of the dictator's name, reminiscent of Churchill's contemptuous references to "Nahsy" for -Nazi." He pronounces it "Nee-gwuib" instead of "Nah-geeb," and with an air that seems to say no respectable fellow should have such a name...
...everyone appreciated young Manning's independence and way of doing things. He was fired off the famed Leviathan (nee Vaterland) after a year at cross-purposes with the captain; on one ship, the stewards tried to poison him by dumping roach powder in his coffee. Says Manning: "I was an awful son of a bitch in those days." His hands still bear the scars of knives wielded by a stowaway and what Manning calls "various obstreperous members of the crew...
After Joachim von Ribbentrop was hanged as a Nazi war criminal in 1946, his widow Anneliese (nee Henkell) produced a legal compact that Henkell & Co. had been nudged into signing in 1942-when ex-Champagne Salesman von Ribbentrop was at the height of his power as Hitler's Foreign Minister. It stipulated that, if she requested it, son Rudolf would be appointed manager after he had worked for the firm two years...
Married. Cornel Wilde, 36, cinemactor (Forever Amber), and Jean Wallace (nee Walasek), supporting player more widely publicized for her off-screen capers; he for the second time, she for the third (No. 1: Franchot Tone); in Santa Monica...