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...Associate Producer Borden Mace is 31; one of De Rochemont's insistent beliefs is that Hollywood's hardened arteries need young blood. Now in preparation (under a financing-releasing deal with Columbia Pictures that gives De Rochemont firm control of his "moviemaking): Walk East on Beacon, a thriller, based on FBI files, about attempts to steal a top U.S. secret whose existence the public still does not suspect. Last time De Rochemont made that kind of picture, The House on 92nd, Street, the secret, announced during production, turned out to be the atomic bomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 13, 1951 | 8/13/1951 | See Source »

Paul Leach, 60, of the Chicago Daily News, sparks the coverage for the four Knight newspapers (Detroit Free Press, Akron Beacon Journal, Chicago Daily News, Miami Herald), and recently caught the Air Force contradicting itself on the relative merits of the Russian MIG and the American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: CORE OF THE CORPS | 7/9/1951 | See Source »

...half hours and nearly 700 miles later, flying through a drizzly night, the plane approached Roberts Field near the Liberian capital of Monrovia. Veteran Pilot Frank Crawford, 38, asked for landing instructions from the tower. He reported trouble with the radio beam on which he was flying-the stronger beacon at Dakar, 762 miles away in French West Africa, seemed to be interfering with local signals. After that, silence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: Big Bird's Death | 7/2/1951 | See Source »

...Titan," the absorbing story of Michelangelo, and "Beaver Valley," the fascinating tale of an anonymous animal kingdom, are also featured at the Beacon Hill. The marquee boasts that all three films are Academy Award winners. And all three speak well for the value of the award itself...

Author: By Thomas C. Wheeler, | Title: The Moviegoer | 4/30/1951 | See Source »

April 17 was the big day for Beacon Hill anticommunists. The legislative program copied from Maryland's Ober Law by the Special Committee to curb Communism was up for consideration before the Committee on Constitutional Law. The latter committee was so impressed by the issue of Communism that it held the hearing in Gardiner Auditorium, anticipating a large crowd. But when the big day came, spectators filled only a third of the seats...

Author: By Samuel B. Potter, | Title: Cabbages and Kings | 4/20/1951 | See Source »

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