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...Janizary Harry Hopkins the same day, a White House secretary insisted that Messrs. Wallace & Hopkins saw the President separately, that Mr. Roosevelt was not campaigning, would not campaign. When Wendell Willkie, frankly campaigning (see p. 16), proposed publicity for Presidential wealth, Mr. Roosevelt distantly replied that he was poorer and wiser than he was in 1928 when he was elected Governor of New York. When Postmaster General Farley resigned (National Chairman Farley had already quit) to go to work for the New York Yankees and Coca-Cola, a hint of human regret tinged Mr. Roosevelt's reply: "I accept...
...into the Warner barber shop where Hal Wallis was getting his big round head tonsured, raved about the story to Warners' big-time chief. It sounded good to Wallis. It sounded like something for Bette Davis, who always requires careful story selection. Soon Warner Brothers were $52,500 poorer and owned another novel...
...Allied side, again faced the prospect of losing her strategic base Salonika, which lies just 100 miles from the Albanian border. Her premier and dictator, John Metaxas, who was deported by the Allies in 1917 as a German political agent, is an admirer of Hitler. His people, grown poorer under totalitarianism, prefer the Allies, particularly France. Given a chance to choose her side, Greece would probably have a revolution deciding. But her opinion would very likely not be asked...
...meant to review that Chicago Style Album that Decca put out a few weeks ago and it's just as well I've let it run a few weeks before attempting it, because the records are definitely poorer after listening to them forty or fifty times. In fact they are strictly mediocre. Next week this column will discuss the individual records in the Album and the Chicago style in general...
...poor are getting poorer," Fritz Thyssen, German steel tycoon, lamented last week in a caustic interview on Nazi Germany. He spoke to New York Times Correspondent Herbert L. Matthews at Locarno, Switzerland, whither he fled last November...