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...premiere. The play itself, John McGiver's All Gaul Is Divided, was a comedy about G.I. black market operations in France, and perhaps not worth so much fuss. But stage & screen bigwigs by the dozens and critics by the score came to look things over. Paramount and Pathe newsreelmen took shots. This week NBC will telecast the play, plans to do the same for all seven plays...
...with a big convoy of U.S. troops, plus such veterans of the Battles of Java and Singapore as A.P.'s C. Yates McDaniel, U.P.'s Harold Guard, the Chicago Daily News's much machine-gunned George Weller-a total of over two dozen correspondents, photographers, broadcasters, newsreelmen...
...Harry Hopkins went out on the porch for a breath of air, happy to bursting point. The tension in the house had relaxed. Down the Albany Post Road tootled and whammed a fife, drum and bugle corps, behind them a straggling crowd of 500 villagers, carrying red railroad flares. Newsreelmen lit brilliant white flares, and Squire Roosevelt of Hyde Park, first third-term President of the U. S., came out on the stone porch to joke with his friends. All day he had been jovially confident. That morning after voting (No. 292) at the town hall, accompanied by Wife Eleanor...
...received, first thus to stay and chat with Franklin Roosevelt on his first diplomatic call. As he opened the front door to face the batteries of newsreel and flashbulb cameramen, a scrawny, tired black cat strolled casually across his path. He stooped and picked it up, while the newsreelmen went into a delighted frenzy.* The cat, counterpart of the one in London, named "Appeasement," which haunts No. 10 Downing St., was instantly dubbed "Crisis...
...press conference one morning the President announced that he wanted his newshawks to give maximum publicity to his signature to the Social Security Bill. That afternoon, seated in the Cabinet room, he signed?but correspondents were not admitted to see the ceremony. That privilege was reserved for cameramen, newsreelmen and some 30 honored guests. With the bill's true authors, Senator Wagner and Representative David Lewis, at his right and left, with Madame Secretary Perkins behind him and with the Bill's foster father, Representative Doughton, in a position of proximate importance, the President read off a statement concluding...
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