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...Margaret Sullavan, the Broadway original, is painfully scrupulous, from the hair on out. But it is hard to believe that Sergeant Reagan could long endure the retarded maiden she portrays, much less find her cute. However, it is likely that millions of people will think her adorable and will titter delightedly over all the broken-field-running among the beds...
...brink of sacrilege. In Paris he went shopping and discovered he needed money, which imperial etiquette forbade him to touch. Iri London's Guildhall he got entangled in the long scroll of a speech he was reading. The audience, undisciplined by Shinto, found it hard to suppress a titter. Hirohito took a subway ride, incognito, and his entourage was horrified when a brusque Cockney conductor berated him for having no ticket...
...Germany). And Cinema Writer Alfred Wright Jr. is still another TIME man who holds the D.F.C. and the Air Medal (plus the Presidential Unit Citation) for "outstanding airmanship, heroic conduct, loyal devotion to duty." (In the Solomons Lieut. Wright bombed and strafed 25 Japanese vessels "with cool courage and titter disregard for his own safety in the face of tremendous anti-aircraft fire...
Said Mr. Roosevelt: "Hi there, Bill! Are you going to run against me for President this year?" There was a breathless pause, then a titter of laughter. Mr. Roosevelt's face turned red. Then he added swiftly: " -that is, if I am a candidate." Replied Congressman Lemke, smiling: "Maybe it would be better if we both didn't run." Newspaper speculation, spurred by the Lemke incident, began to assume more & more that Mr. Roosevelt will broadcast his July acceptance of the Democratic nomination in the most glamorous manner possible - that he will take full politi cal advantage...
Authoress Strauss specializes in the cultivated titter, the swift verbal snickersnee...