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James Marvin Alvey came to his senses slowly. He sat up, dizzily, discovered that his face was caked with blood, and that his left ankle was broken and swollen. He was cold. The wall of a mountain canyon rose above him, and a red airplane lay smashed on the rocks beside him. He began to remember what had happened...
...waited a long time. For three days he stayed near the plane. Then his fire got out of control, set the wreckage ablaze, charred his companion's body. He crawled painfully away, huddled near the bottom of the canyon. Two days later his lighter fluid gave out; he could kindle no more fires. He rationed his candy bars, quenched his thirst by scooping holes in a dry creek bed and waiting for water to filter slowly into them...
Shortly after midnight, two detectives, who had been listening outside a rudely furnished three-room shack in Laurel Canyon, just back of Hollywood, fumbled at the kitchen door. Dancer Vickie Evans, hearing them, opened it from the inside. In the living room with the hostess, a pert blonde movie starlet named Lila Leeds, and Robin Ford, a scared real-estate man, the cops found big, sleepy-eyed Cinemactor Robert Mitchum. The handsome $3,000-a-week screen hero hastily tried to get rid of a cigarette that turned out to be marijuana. A detective found other "reefers" on Mitchum, Ford...
...have their own ideas of what a painting by the country's best-known "primitive" should look like. When Grandma paints a picture that seems not quite in character, her dealers sadly send it back. One such reject hanging over her mantel shows a sunset above a Western canyon, with a log cabin in the foreground. "What one likes," says Grandma philosophically, "another don't." Another of her favorite rejects is a storm scene, with black clouds lowering in a pink sky. "Dr. Kallir [one of her dealers] wants me to change it. He don't like...
...Milton (Steve Canyon) Caniff has brilliantly adapted movie techniques to cartooning. Caniff moves around the scenes he invents as restlessly as a camera under the direction of Alfred Hitchcock, intercutting panoramic long shots with close-ups of action and expression. He stays well ahead of a host of imitators...