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...secret has it been that the gaunt, pale-faced Edda is hopeful that her somewhat mediocre young husband may some day become Il Duce II. A possible obstacle is Prince Umberto, who is accepted, rightly or wrongly, as the spearhead of opposition to Axis policies which Count and Countess Ciano champion...
Warner Bros., which got the jump on the industry by introducing talkies in 1927, has since scored as a pacemaker in gangster films and biographies, is now the spearhead of Hollywood's biographical thrust. Some Warner projects: Paul Muni in The Life of Beethoven, James Cagney in The Story of John Paul Jones, biographies of Knute Rockne, John Dillinger, Hitler-baiting Pastor Martin Niemoller...
...back up Harry Hopkins, spearhead of a big new Administration push to stimulate Business (see p. 451), Franklin Roosevelt caused identic letters to be released at week's end to "My Dear John" Lewis and "Dear Bill" Green, asking them to appoint committees to achieve "peace with honor" between C. I. 0. and A. F. of L. "within the early months of the new year." Bill named a committee forthwith, but John at week's end was still thinking it over...
...truth in his recent "Manifesto by a Physicist," and the omission has had repercussions which already have increased the gravity of the initial offense. Scientists from all over the country have been endorsing Bridgman's stand until now it seems likely that this individual protest may well become the spearhead of a concerted anti-fascist attack on the part of the nation's scientific leaders. Such action would not only fail to achieve its avowed end, but would in reality have results quite opposite to those desired by the earnest physics professor...
...spearhead of the attack against the oath of allegiance is from Harvard because of their great advocacy of Academic freedom," asserted ex-Representative Thomas Dorgan of Dorchester, fiery sponsor of the original law. "But that does not mean freedom to do anything they please...