Word: chocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back in pioneer Oregon of 1856-ah, those were the days!-life was chock-full of excitement: barroom brawling, gunplay, gold prospecting, gambling, whizzing tommyhawks and flaming arrows, sudden romance and sudden death. Canyon Passage has all this and more-plus better-than-average dialogue and competent players (Dana Andrews, Susan Hayward, Brian Donlevy, Britain's Patricia Roc). Gnome-faced Hoagy Carmichael wanders lazily through the busy plot, picking his mandolin and singing four catchy, near-frontier ballads that he composed for the occasion. Technicolor works pure magic with the ires, the fist fights, trie Redmen, the pretty girls...
...Otis & Co. ad offering a new bond issue. In the underwriting syndicate: Chock-Full O'Nuts, S. Klein, Good Humor, Inc., Army & Navy Stores, Inc., Diet Smith, B. O. Plenty, and Your Friendly Socony Dealer...
...United Nations" series was Paepcke's idea. The artists chosen to represent their native countries were, for the most part, commercial virgins. Although the only instructions given them were the dimensions of the ad, some of the first ads appeared chock-full of Container Corp. boxes. Paepcke added a second rule: no more boxes. Thus, many of the paintings in the show are as unrelated to Container Corp. as a Waugh seascape is to the Cunard Line...
...home some shrunken human heads from Peru. The memory of those heads, he claims, has prevented him from collecting anything himself-except facts about collectors. For the past seven years Douglas Rigby and his wife Elizabeth have been collecting just such facts. The result is a 517-page book, chock-full of photographs and line drawings: Lock, Stock & Barrel (Lippincott; $5), the first such history ever compiled...
Hail the Conquering Hero (Paramount), the newest cinematic caprice from Preston Sturges (The Great McGinty, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek), beats a satirical tattoo on the American small town. But it tells a story so touching, so chock-full of human frailties and so rich in homely detail that it achieves a reality transcending the limitations of its familiar slapstick...