Word: boned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Warren William (Krech), 53, stage & screen actor; of cancer of the bone marrow; in Los Angeles. An immediate success in the early talkies, he specialized at playing sophisticated villains and cultured detectives...
Manning that post for the Varsity Saturday will be one Howard Houston. The former Haverhill all-scholastic hasn't lost the touch that won him all-New England honors last season. He still has the characteristic of hunching up his chest pads after every bone-crunching tackle he makes, and his blocks and tackles sound like pistol shots...
...peculiar to Hollywood, some of its supertense citizens sometimes volatilize and take to drink, adultery or dope. The movie industry, beset last week on every side by box-office woes, heckling from Washington and quotas from Britain, trembled to think that the old bogey of Hollywood's marrow-bone wickedness might be revived...
...also engages in an unusually brutal fight with the heavy's henchman (Forrest Tucker). One novel detail of the fight: they stomp one another's trigger fingers into bone splinters. When, at last, it is made clear that Scott is avenging his murdered fiancee, it is easy enough to understand why he hates the heavy and turns up his nose at the girls; the only mystery is why he waited till the last reel to explain himself...
...Clear Call Lanny Budd is assigned by Roosevelt to bone up on rockets and jets. This is to prepare him for a visit to Germany to quiz a German scientist (anti-Nazi) on German progress in developing the rocket bomb. Thereafter the episodes are what might be expected: the high moment of almost every Lanny Budd novel is an escape from the Gestapo, or the rescue of someone from a Fascist torture chamber...