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Said Miss Leigh, in real life Mrs. Herbert Leigh Holman, wife of a London barrister and mother of a five-year-old daughter: "I am grateful beyond words." Said Gone With the Wind's author, Margaret Mitchell, to whom Producer Selznick characteristically announced the news in a789-word telegram: "I'm so glad it's all settled...
Fortnight ago former Premier Wang Ching-wei, prominent Nationalist Party leader and member of China's United Resistance Front, suddenly flew from Chungking, the temporary capital, to Hanoi, capital of French Indo-China. From there, it was reported last week, he sent a telegram to Generalissimo Chiang declaring that Japanese "proposals" of late December (which, if accepted, would have made China a Japanese puppet state) constituted a "fair" basis for peace discussion...
Sought out by Dorothy Dunbar Bromley, onetime writer of women's chatter for the New York World-Telegram and now a columnist for the New York Post, Lady Astor proceeded to whip out a flat denunciation of Adolf Hitler. "I'm so much against him [Hitler]," cried the spectacular Virginia lady who 'has sat in the House of Commons since 1919, "that I wouldn't think of accepting an invitation to meet him if one were offered me. I loathe dictators and all they stand for. The most horrible thing Hitler has done is to warp...
...telegram and letters above were received too late for inclusion in TIME'S Dec. 26 issue. For TIME'S answer, see TIME'S cover, TIME'S story...
...whether or not she was married to Charlie Chaplin, then as the centre of the controversy about who would play Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind. Last week the persistent rumor that Paulette Goddard would be Scarlett was again revived, by Roy Howard's World-Telegram and again denied. Cinemaddicts concluded that, since Gone With the Wind has become practically a phantom picture, Paulette as Scarlett would be good casting to type...