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British Actor Wilfrid Lawson, World War I flier and World War II R. A. F. officer, tendered a job in Hollywood at $2,000 a week, offered to give his salary to the British Treasury, live on his officer's pay ($15 a week). Though Actor Lawson had twice before taken leave to make British films, this time the War Office answered: "No." No "exception could be made" for Actor Lawson, "even to collect dollars...
Ages 8 & Older CHILDREN OF THE SEA-Wilfrid S. Bronson-Harcourt, Brace...
Last week Wilfrid Fleisher, who for ten years was managing editor of his father's Japan Advertiser until it was more or less forcibly bought out with German money last month, arrived in San Francisco. For the first time in many years - since he knew he was not going back to Japan - he spoke with neither official nor self-imposed censorship...
...reveal for the first time," said Wilfrid Fleisher, "a plot of last July 5 by which a group of reactionary members of the so-called 'God-sent' troops intended to assassinate former Premier Mitsumasa Yonai and the Imperial House hold Minister Tsuneo Matsudaira." The leader of this plot was Colonel Hashimoto...
...boneheaded Swede (John Wayne) who wants to quit the sea and live on a farm with his mother, and a timid little one who looks after him (John Qualen); a dipsomaniacal, upper-class Englishman (Ian Hunter) trying to forget his shoddy past-also on a grim, gruff captain (Wilfrid Lawson). There is no sustained plot to occupy the men, only sporadic incidents such as a battering storm at sea, a drunken rumpus in a West Indian port with a bevy of native girls, a tingling passage through the war zone, a long-drawn debauch in London's waterfront pubs...