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...jungle of pictorial journalism. Vol. I, No. 2 of the same film excels its predecessor in timing, cutting, choice of material. It comes closer to justifying itself as accomplishment rather than as. innovation, makes it apparent that topical cinema which contains no shots of ski-jumpers, cherry-blossom time in Tokyo, or an Atlantic City baby parade is a practicable entertainment formula. Best shot: the Talis- man's huge menacing bow, just before it slices into the Mohawk...
...grey-haired Cartoonist King singled out his favorite character, fat Bachelor Walt Wallet, surprised him one morning with a fondling infant on his doorstep. Thus Skeezix. As years rolled by Frank King let Skeezix grow out of babyhood. Meanwhile Walt had become prosperous, married his comely neighbor Phyllis Blossom. With careful delicacy Cartoonist King shielded her form and feelings during pregnancy until, six years ago, Baby Corkleigh ("Corky") was born to the Wallets. While Skeezix lengthened into gangling adolescence, "Corky," too, outgrew his infant tricks...
Bound for Florida, Mrs, Alfred Emanuel Smith was standing in a compartment on the Seaboard Air Liner Orange Blossom Special, when the train rounded a curve near Richmond, lurched, threw her heavily against a window ledge. Her husband summoned a doctor who treated her hastily, told her she could go on. Twenty-four hours later, suffering "from a broken arm and nervous shock. Mrs. Smith bedded herself in a West Palm Beach hospital, stayed there four days...
Last week Editor Blossom pronounced the experiment a success. In the first month the black seal of an accepted story was broken to admit Borden Chase, a hydraulic engineer. Soon others were unmasked: a Chicago newshawk using the name Kimball Herrick; a Montana professor named Brassil Fitzgerald; Allen Vaughan Elston, previously unknown outside of the pulp magazines. And more than one professional with a front cover name received a rejection slip, unaware that his story had been judged and discarded solely on merit...
Elated by the discovery of new talent, Editor Blossom decided to continue the "sealed fiction" process for short stories. But serials, as before, will be acquired only through advance order and negotiation...