Word: calls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jauntily as the captain of the Walloping Windowblind. But not even his opponents doubted his essential integrity and simplicity and, in the calmer waters of 1948, that seemed enough. Said a young businessman: "He'll do what he thinks he ought to. Up home in North Carolina, we call him mule head...
...Veteran Dramatist Maxwell Anderson, who once took an ad to call critics "a sort of Jukes family of journalism." Even this season, when his Anne of the Thousand Days (TIME, Dec. 20) set critics to reaching for their superlatives, Anderson was not mollified. With fellow members of the Playwrights' Company and Co-Producer Leland Hayward, Anderson decided to put the critics in their place by not taking any display ads nor quoting a word of their praise...
...generations after that, legions of wandering newsmen made the Golden Gate a port of call. Some big names were among them. Rudyard Kipling, says Author Bruce, was "a bad reporter . . . snagging on his careless pen events and scenes that were never there." White-coated Horace Greeley found the climate the "worst on earth." Nevertheless, he went back to New York and urged young men to go west...
...famed Editor Fremont Older. When Older became convinced that Tom Mooney (whom he disliked) had been railroaded to jail for the Preparedness Day bombing of 1916, the Bulletin's bosses refused to back up their editor. W. R. Hearst sent Older a wire: COME TO THE CALL. BRING THE MOONEY CASE WITH YOU. Older took Johnny Bruce with him too, and Bruce dug up the evidence that eventually helped free Mooney...
...Shoes. Two lists included Walter Wanger's Joan oj Arc, Robert Flaherty's documentary Louisiana Story, 20th Century-Fox's little comedy, Sitting Pretty, RKO's I Remember Mama and Samuel Goldwyn's The Bishop's Wife. Films that placed on one list: Call Northside 777, Apartment for Peggy, The Naked City, State of the Union, A Foreign Affair, The Pearl, Italy's Paisan and Denmark's Day of Wrath...