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...paramount importance geographically is the question of Germany's eastern frontier-whether the boundary shall remain along the Order and Neisse rivers, where Moscow insists the Potsdam agreement permanently located it, or whether the line shall be moved a few hundred miles further to the east, toward the old, pre-war German frontier. This latter proposal was advanced by Mr. Byrnes, and Secretary Marshall last week pledged himself to follow the Stuttgart policies straight down the line...
...spends seven billion dollars per year for liquor, will have to lend far greater support to its school system than the annual 2.5 billion it now sees fit to part with. No one was surprised last week when the United States Commissioner of Education stated that American education's paramount problem, and one that can be solved only by better salaries, is to improve the quality of public school teaching...
...finally settled for two new jobs-production assistant to Paramount's Henry Ginsberg, and columnist for King Features. Together, they would pay her about $100,000 a year. When she had 'made up her mind, The Face, 32, telephoned the home folks in New York. Said she: "Hey, shake hands with the richest kid in town...
Their difficulties, indeed, are more interesting than the finished product. Both Paramount and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer wanted to make the picture. When it was agreed that Metro would make it, the troubles had only started. First of all, there were big problems of security. And it is obviously impossible to make a free-swinging, forceful picture if every foot of it has to satisfy the official and personal tastes of numerous politicians, brasshats and scientists. Casting was difficult, too. Eleanor Roosevelt was uneasy about any actor's portraying her late husband.* In the first version, it developed that Actor...
...only refreshing notes are the excellence of Barbara stanwyck, perfectly cast as a questionable woman, the wonderful Irish brogue of Barry Fitzgerald, and the ceric perfection of a knife fight. By warping the conventional meat and potatoes script. Paramount has succeeded only in weakening Ray Milland's excellent reputation and in alienating what Western lovers it still has left...