Stars: The Comedian as Hero

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us?" Dolores puts it another way. "What Bob means to America," she says, "is simply what his name means—hope." Or perhaps it's just as Kelly and Nora Hope concluded many years ago when they were little kids. Kelly was overheard asking Nora: "Is everybody in the world Catholic?" "Yes," replied Nora, "everybody but Daddy. He's a comedian."

-And made TIME'S cover (Sept 20 1943). -James and George help manage some of Bob's business properties. Fred runs Ohio's biggest meat-distributing firm, and Ivor heads a metal-sales company there.

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