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...more temperamental star. The actor was a bobcat that obviously had no intention of doing what he was told. He broke out of his cage, fled up a tree, fought so violently when lassoed that he broke his neck and died. Reported the frustrated moviemaker to his employer, Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Inc.: "I am now without a cat to work with. I very much regret having to report so much trouble, but it seems to go with this kind of work...
Three Ears for One. Founded by Western Electric in 1929, the company that was to become E.B.F. was just struggling along until well after the Britannica took over. Teachers had balked at using movies in their classes, and pupils never seemed to take them seriously. Spurred by the success of the armed services with audiovisual education during World War II, the company sent out 40 experts to proselytize in schools. The experts taught pupils how to run projectors, talked thousands of teachers into experimenting with films. The E.B.F. staff went through 109 standard elementary textbooks, this year drew up detailed...
...Fuzzy-Wuzzies and Gunga Dins, will be cut down to only 160,000 men, all regulars. The R.A.F., the few to whom so many owe so much, will become an air force without combat airplanes of about 150,000 men. The Royal Navy, which for centuries enforced the Pax Britannica and patrolled an empire from Gibraltar to Rangoon, will be reduced to 75,000 men. "The role of naval forces in total war is somewhat uncertain," said the White Paper candidly...
After her first match against Van Doren two weeks ago, Mrs. Nearing spent the weekend poring over the Encyclopaedia Britannica. But none of her hunches paid off. Still she managed to tie Van Doren and push the stakes to $1,000 a point...