Word: busters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Sergei Ilyushin, 82, Soviet aeronautics genius who designed more than 50 different airplanes, including the new IL-86 airbus soon to be put into service; in Moscow. Ilyushin's heavily armored low-flying tank buster called the Stormovik destroyed so many Nazi tanks in World War II that the Germans dubbed it "the flying death...
...human and slightly absurd. A short fund-raising film for the Hollywood Ten, unearthed by Director Helpern, shows the group addressing the camera with starchy informality and faint condescension. But this impression of haughtiness compares favorably with the shrill, uproarious melodramatics of The Red Menace, an anti-Communist crime buster included to illustrate the degree of frenzy that gripped Hollywood. Hollywood on Trial contains no revelations and no tough questions addressed to any faction. It does keep a decent, compassionate political equilibrium, and is to be admired accordingly...
...former crime reporter, now become a freelance crime buster, St. Ives toils away at being a novelist in his spare time. He has more of that commodity than he can handle, however, so when his attorney finds him an odd job, St. Ives snaps it up. An old richie up in Holmby Hills named Abner Procane (John Houseman) has had some journals stolen. St. Ives is commissioned as middleman in the trade-off of big bucks for large books, whose precise contents remain a mystery. As the caper proceeds, however, it becomes increasingly clear that whatever is in the books...
There were dog-eared screen magazines, antique baseball cards, some Beatles T shirts-and one genuine prewar space hero at New York's Second Annual Nostalgia Convention. Buster Crabbe, better known as fearless Flash Gordon since he filmed the 40 or so movie-serial episodes in the 1930s, was the top attraction at the three-day gathering of memorabilia hounds. A taut-looking 68 and the author of a new physical-fitness book called Energistics, Crabbe now pushes prefabricated swimming pools in Arizona, but he would not mind getting back into the flicks. Yet today, he says...
...tearjerker about a Southern construction crew does not sing on the page. Bourjaily lovingly describes the eventual performance as a smash success; yet it is impossible to imagine how a "solid, bass boom" of a voice could save the line: "I'll see you in the morning, Buster. Pleasant dreams...