Word: welleses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The 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...
Welles manages to make young Minafer one of the most insufferable grandees the camera has ever made hateful. The grand. gloomy, theatrical fellow kills his pretty, weak, widowed mother (Dolores Costello) by the cocksure ruthlessness with which he prevents her marrying the man (Joseph Cotten) she has always loved. His...
> January 1941, Sumner Welles informed Soviet Ambassador Oumansky "that Hitler has marked Russia for slaughter in the following June." The Under Secretary's declaration was based not on ordinary military intelligence but on an "amazingly interesting foundation which cannot, at this time, be disclosed."
One man who contemplated all this with a bilious eye was George Messersmith, now U.S. Ambassador to Mexico. Messersmith had spent a long time in Germany and had known about Axel Wenner-Gren in the prewar years. Another non-admirer, in Washington, was Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, whom...
Champion to date of the 1942 season of honorary degrees is War Production Boss Donald M. Nelson. By this week he had four-from Harvard, Northwestern, Missouri, Pennsylvania Military College. Among others given honorary degrees last week: Mme. Chiang Kai-shek (in absentia), Raymond Gram Swing, Sumner Welles, Cornelia Otis...