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Least Likely to Succeed. The subject of these reports received from TIME correspondents last week is-as they demonstrate-well on his way toward becoming a living legend. Four years ago he was an obscure roving reporter whose syndicated column of trivial travelogues appeared in an unimpressive total of 40 newspapers. At that time almost any class of war correspondents would have voted him least likely to succeed. Aged 40, small and skinny (5 ft., 8 in., 115 lbs.), perpetually sick or worrying that he was about to be, agonizingly shy, he was completely lacking in the brash and dash...
Lili Marlene (Crown Film Unit; Universal), like many popular soldier songs, is far from martial. Its words (which are sung by a lonely girl and her lonely sentry sweetheart) were written in Hamburg in 1923. Its trivial, contagious tune† was made in the Germany of 1938. It was given its drawling lilt in a Berlin cabaret, by a Swedish singer named Lala Andersen (played by comely Pat Hughes), who is now in a concentration camp. (Reason: she wrote in a letter, "All I want is to get out of this horrible country...
...Berlin a 27-year-old woman was beheaded for snatching another woman's purse. Execution for such trivial offenses was decreed to help stop the flow of stolen ration cards into the hands of speculators...
...some observers it appeared that the Administration was casually trying to brush off a mere Republican State Governor who persisted in being tiresome about a trivial matter. But the outraged Governor continued to badger and challenge the Federal Government for his full, undiluted, sovereign State's rights. Each side stood stubbornly and firmly on its dignity. But Tom Dewey, who cut his political eyeteeth on just such gang-busting as the Lepke case, seemed to be standing on the firmer legal ground. The next move was up to Washington-and what seemed to be at stake was something bigger...
...There may be no meat on the platter, No coffee, nor butter for bread; It all seems a trivial matter So long as I have on my head A fluff and a puff and a whimsy Suggestive of Salvador Dali, Irrelevant, flaunting and flimsy, A symbol of feminine folly. . . ." Two publishers wanted to get in touch with Lamartine to persuade him to write a book. Newsreel photographers hammered at Editor Norman Cousins' door, demanding to know M. Lamartine's where abouts. Manhattan newsmen tried vainly to find him. A female reporter from the Louisville Courier-Journal tried...