Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cast and direction that supplies suspense of Alfred Hitchcock calibre lift Five Came Back out of the Swiss Family Hollywood class and up to the distinction of a sort of Stagecoach on wings. Director of Five Came Back was 35-year-old John Villiers Farrow, an Australian-born seaman-author-director and soldier of fortune who jumped a ship in Honolulu, worked his way to Hollywood in 1927, has been a cinemauthor and director there, as well as in France and Austria. As a low-budget director at Warner Bros, he fired no worlds, this year tried his luck...
Died. Edward Sandford Martin, 83, old-school epigrammatist, author and editor, who founded The Harvard Lampoon (1876), Life (1883), occupied "The Editor's Easy Chair" on Harper's Magazine (1920-35); of injuries after a fall; in Manhattan...
...Band, in Potomac Park, played it straight: Dee deedle dee dum dum, dum dum, dum dum. . . . Dee deedle dee dum dee dum dee dum. . . . Many another orchestra and soloist twanged and blared it. It was even played in Hawaiian style. A local radio station dramatized the life of its author. All this hullabaloo in Washington, D. C. celebrated a work which first took U. S. ears by storm 50 years ago: John Philip Sousa's The Washington Post March...
Even closer partners in his Wind, Sand and Stars are the pilot and the poet, the mechanic and the metaphysician. Says Author Saint Exupéry: "One doesn't risk one's life for a plane any more than a farmer ploughs for the sake of the plough. But the airplane is a means of getting away from towns and their bookkeeping and coming to grips with reality. ... It plunges a man directly into the heart of mystery...
...Guillaumet, airmail pilot on the route surveyed by Mermoz, who, forced down in the Andes, became "the author of his own miracle" in as heroic a trek as any in exploring history. Said Pilot Guillau-met: "I swear that what I went through, no animal would have gone through...