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High point of Willkie's Syrian visit was his conversation at the palace with General Charles de Gaulle. Willkie entered the general's columned personal salon in his same blue business suit. De Gaulle, in white dress uniform with his hair plastered like a schoolboy's, was seated before paintings pf Napoleon as a youth and as Emperor and had a pedestaled bust of Napoleon at his left hand. He expressed his desire for a more important place at the United Nations council table. When Willkie suggested occasional compromises for purpose of unity, De Gaulle stood...
...funny. In the cadets, she has some of the stiffest comic competition of the year. Ginger's real-life mother has a pleasant maternal moment playing her cinemama. Scenarists Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder seem to know all there is to know about the comedy inherent in the schoolboy mind. Billy Wilder, directing his first picture, puts it deftly across...
Home Secretary Herbert Morrison and an agile-kneed schoolboy, Leonard Mitchell, were the winners. Leonard pedaled his bike furiously, through lanes of bridge workmen perched on railings, reached the Waterloo (South) end of the bridge ahead of the nearest chugging taxi. Exulted Leonard: "It will be something to remember...
...Schoolboy. In three consecutive issues the Moscow News broke the first war year's Russian stoicism by demanding action from Russia's allies: "The beast of Berlin, badly mauled and bleeding, is fighting desperately to break through the principal link in the world chain around him. His rear is his weakest spot. . . . War abhors lost opportunities...
...friends are saying," said a twelve-year-old schoolboy, "that when a dog shows his teeth, yank his tail." To a schoolboy it was as simple as that. To millions of other Russians it was just as simple...