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...Alan discovers that Jessie Proctor was an alias assumed by Janet Prentice, a World War II WREN in Navy Ordnance whom he had once met as his younger brother's sweetheart. As past becomes present in Alan's probings, the war gives Janet her first whiff of life, and then steadily chokes it out of her. Both the men Janet cares for-Alan's brother and her father-are killed. Just before Dday, Janet mans an ack-ack gun and lucklessly brings down a party of Czechs and Poles fleeing the Nazis in a German plane. After...
...Dietrich magic lingers-far more persistently than the whiff of Lanvin's Arpege with which Columbia has obligingly scented the first 5,000 albums...
...footwork look like Saturday night luck. The songs (Someone to Watch Over Me, I've Got a Crush on You, How Come You Do Me Like You Do?) have been heard before, but they are not too hard to hear again. Betty Grable is still a fairly potent whiff of H202, and Jack Lemmon, who showed in It Should Happen to You and Phffft! that he is an expert comedian, proves in this picture that he can sing and dance very winningly...
Hinton's long-absent children, Joan, 33, and William, 35, made congressional-committee headlines as proCommunists (TIME, Aug. 9), the school caught a whiff of bad publicity. But, respected and liked in her Vermont community, Rugged Individualist Hinton attracted the children of some of the nation's top professional and amateur educators (e.g., High Commissioner for Germany James B. Conant, former Ford Foundation President Paul G. Hoffman, Pundit Marquis Childs), and unendowed Putney prospered...
...France. It would have the backing of the French nationalists, said Mendès, because it imposed no restrictions on French sovereignty, of the Socialists because it would bring in Britain as a counterweight to Germany, of some of the "Good Europeans" because it retained at least a whiff of European Union...