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...Magnificent Ambersons (Mercury; RKO-Radio) is a magnificent movie. It is also Round Two of the Orson Welles v. Hollywood set-to. The upstart young (27) producer-director-author-actor won Round One in a walk with his first picture, Citizen Kane (TIME, March 17, 1941), 1941's most provocative and exciting movie. Ambersons is not another Citizen Kane, but it is good enough to remove Director Welles for keeps from the novice or one-picture-prodigy class, and to further the feud...
...Dewey's backing. He also has the backing of many independent Republicans. What he did not have and would not get was the support of the ancient, cast-iron Republican machine which dominates the district. The district GOPoliticos, backing Fish again, were set to crush any upstart at the primaries. The only chance for Bennet was to get Democrats in the district to support him as a coalition candidate in November. That kind of a coalition was up to Franklin Roosevelt...
...Marshall Field doesn't like the race issue, Publisher Powell does (see cut). No Harlem upstart, he is pastor of Harlem's 134-year-old Abyssinian Baptist Church (world's biggest Protestant congregation: 14,000). He is New York City's first and only Negro councilman. He has led picket lines, organized campaigns for jobs for Negro clerks and doctors. He is a close friend of Harlem's No. 1 boogie-woogie manager, Charles Buchanan of the Savoy Ballroom. He employs five secretaries and a liveried chauffeur. And he has his eye on Congress...
...Roosevelt had said very clearly that the BEW henceforth was to "determine the policies [and] plans . . . with respect to the procurement and production [of materials abroad]." The order had given a boost to Vice President Wallace, Milo Perkins, and their BEW; had thrown State into a dignified dither. The upstart BEW seemed to have been authorized to rush into State's well-kept gardens, trample State's delicate diplomatic plants abroad...
Even McNary's closest friends expect him to be beaten some year: Upstart Geary thought 1942 was the year...