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...turned out, chief casualty of gory One Million B. C. was David Wark Griffith, big-shot director of Hollywood's own prehistory. Called in by the Roaches to produce his first picture since he remade Broken Blossoms in England in 1936, Griffith declined to take any credit for One Million B. C. Said he: "My name would do the film little good, and I am sure that the picture would do me little good...
That bill died of Senatorial indifference. Last month Ranger Townsend resurrected it, set off, sky-hooting down the trail. Fortnight ago a new posse joined him-the twelve regional big-shot bankers of the Federal Advisory Council, adjunct of the Federal Reserve System, who announced in a unanimous yell: ". . . Purchases of foreign silver should be discontinued forthwith...
...staged and executed by Hitler's own henchmen to bring the Führer close to martyrdom and thus rally waning popular support for the regime? Was it another Reichstag fire? What about the mysterious and providential changes in plan? What about the fact that not a single big-shot Nazi remained in the beer hall even though the Führer's prompt departure was unforeseen? Despite these startling coincidences, this theory was hardly more credible than the German charge that Winston Churchill sank the Athenia...
...none of the Treasury of American Prints was new, most were standard favorites: few of Critic Craven's prints were misprints. Big-shot artists such as Benton, Curry, Sloan and Wood were allotted five or six pages apiece, others from one to three. There were prints to suit everybody. People who itch and fidget when confronted with the self-conscious strainings of Thomas Benton's I Got a Girl on Sourwood Mountain could turn a page to his Lonesome Road. For people who consider John Steuart Curry's darkly violent lithograph Line Storm "theatrical," Critic Craven supplied...
Coordinator of NBC's system of full-time big-shot press correspondents in key capitals and comment from guest correspondents and political bigwigs is capable ex-Worldman Abe Schechter. Correspondent Max Jordan, who scored a notable beat for radio last September on the Munich pact, this time got NBC one of radio's press bylines with his short-waved transmission from Berlin of Hitler's 16 points at a time when transatlantic cables were temporarily shut down...