People: People, Mar. 12, 1945

Dreams to Dream

Lady Montgomery, 79-year-old mother of Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, predicted that the war in Europe would be over by March 23, and what's more—reported London's Evening Standard—she "has written to the Field Marshal to make sure her forecast is fulfilled."

Samuel Goldwyn, famed as Hollywood's greatest Malaprop, arrived in England on a special mission for FEA, spent a day among the Oxfordons as the guest of Balliol's dean. To students he made a promise: "For years I have been known for saying 'include me out,' but ... I am...

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