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...minutes Admiral Nomura worked his blandishments on the President, while Secretary of State Cordell Hull fingered his pince-nez ribbon. When the Admiral emerged, he flashed a smile at reporters, twirled a grey fedora in his brown hands. Then he stepped into his limousine...
...Little Foxes (Samuel Goldwyn; RKO Radio) is a blue-ribbon adaptation of Playwright Lillian Hellman's and Producer Herman Shumlin's bitter Broadway drama of a rapacious Southern family hell-bent for power and money at the turn of the century. If it consists of too much photographed talk, too little movement, that is Hollywood's error for trying to film stage plays instead of designing stories for the camera's rangier talents...
...Skeptical Canadian authorities had checked up on Buckley's record, found that he was a plain aircraftsman who had been washed out of a pilot-training course in England, then deserted. Fortnight ago, police nabbed him swanking about Toronto in a flyer's uniform with a D.F.C. ribbon...
...golf show is no small shucks. Sandwiched between the Negro National Amateur Open, Joe's tournament, with annual prize money of $1,000, will be a blue-ribbon golf event, tantamount to the white folks' tournament sponsored by Bobby Jones...
...Open (six years ago): the Professional Golfers' Association championship tournament, closed-shop meeting of U.S. pros; defeating Texan Byron Nelson, defending champion, on the second extra hole of the 36-hole final; after the lead had changed four times and the match was squared four times; over the ribbon-fairwayed Cherry Hills course, one mile above sea level, at Denver. In nine previous P.G.A. championships, Ghezzi had never reached the quarterfinals...