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...accepting the likelihood of something so well-established as London being blotted out, and besides, everyone who sees the movie knows that London was still standing when he went into the theatre. In the average thriller, or even in the foregone-conclusion romance, the audience can always believe, or suspend its disbelief, that the feared result will come to pass; there is nothing inherently improbable in the wrong man marrying the girl. But even the most empathetic audience cannot feel that the scientist may destroy London...
...present uncertainty," Conant said, "two facts stand out: we are not engaged in a global war; the nation is not committed to total mobilization." This, he foresaw, will be the state of the country for many a year to come, and educational institutions should not suspend their normal functions and set aside plans for innovations as they did after Pearl Harbor...
Last week The Miracle made headlines by offending Edward T. McCaffrey, $15,000-a-year license commissioner of New York City and onetime national commander of the Catholic War Veterans. McCaffrey, a holdover from the O'Dwyer administration, has power to grant, suspend and revoke the licenses of the city's movie theaters (as well as of legitimate theaters, laundries, bowling alleys, etc.). After Ways of Love had been running for more than a week, McCaffrey sent the Paris Theater an order to stop showing The Miracle or face suspension-and possibly revocation-of its license. The movie...
...order was a direct slap at General Motors and Ford, which only a week before had turned down Valentine's request to suspend their price increases (TIME, Dec. 18). But it also affected Chrysler and Nash, which had raised prices last week...
...sooner was the news out than Economic Stabilizer Alan Valentine, a man still new to his job (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), began a frenetic attempt to stabilize things. He fired off telegrams to G.M.'s President Charles E. Wilson and to Henry Ford II asking them to suspend all price increases until he could talk things over with them. G.M. and Ford sent back like replies: they would be glad to meet with Valentine, but the boosts would stick. Said Wilson: "We find it impractical to accede to your sudden request . . ." Said Ford, in an obvious reference to the recent...