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...longer any patriotic motive for showing documentaries in theaters. The nontheatrical market-some 35,000 projectors in schools, parish houses, union halls, etc.-is still uncertain. Commercial producers hesitate to risk much in a risky medium. Documentary films run the danger of being controlled by sponsors with an ax to grind and little concern for what interests people. (Likeliest sponsors: the Government, private industry, unions, educational institutions.) Too few documentaries have straight theatrical vitality; and too few of those which do have it are exhibited widely enough to develop a reliable mass audience. Peace has left high & dry a greatly...
...Boeing's Seattle and Renton, Wash, plants lifted their heads at the sudden blare of loudspeakers. In short, crisp sentences, the bad news came. The U.S. Army, which had planned to cut back Boeing's B-29 production gradually, had suddenly decided to swing the big ax. Instead of 122 B-29s this month, it wanted only 50; instead of 20 next month, it wanted only...
...Cottier's, the Saturday Evening Post. No superlatives were too strong for his variegated heroes and heroines. Walt Disney's Dumbo he termed "the best achievement yet reached in the Seven Arts since the first white man landed on this continent." The story of Lizzie Borden, the ax-murderess, was "on the plane with Shakespeare and Sophocles" (later, Woollcott horrified the Borden Milk Co. by urging them to give the name Lizzie to an offspring of their prizewinning cow at the World's Fair). Woollcott believed that Harpo Marx had the makings of a great poet...
Nelson, who can play championship golf with an ax handle when he's hot, came to life next day in the match play battle at New Jersey's Essex County course. He sank a 35-footer, outdrove hard-slamming Sambo. Snead's putting meanwhile went from poor to punk, ended in a nose dive on the water-soaked greens. Nelson, six-up at the 13th, closed it out at the 33rd with the score four-and-three. That left the unofficial championship just about where it was in the first place. With a win apiece, Nelson...
...neared 50, large and lusty Writer Paul de Kruif felt his considerable powers waning. His customary four-mile trot along a Lake Michigan beach slowed down to a walk. Three or four hours with the double-bitted ax and cross-cut saw were all he could stand. He tired easily, slept fitfully, found himself a prey to causeless fears...