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...Flame of New Orleans (Universal). The gay and adventurous tart has given many a cinemaddict 90 minutes of release and fun. In The Flame of New Orleans Marlene Dietrich, fresh from the sultry antics of Seven Sinners and under the direction of famed French Director Rene Clair (Le Million), rides again...
Feature of the program will be an interview with Betty Clair vocalist for Claude Thornhill and sister of Glen Miller's Dorothy Claire. This is the second dance that the Network has broadcast with its new transmission unit...
...domestic ducks of the Long Island Duck Farmers' Association, fattening on nearby farms. Awakened by the searchlights feeling the sky for decoy planes, the ducks charged around in their wire pens like Brooklynites in the subway. They developed insomnia, turned up their bills at corn. Colonel Clair W. Baird, commanding Camp Upton, sighed, ordered his artillerymen to turn their lights the other...
...Clair Motor Car Co.; after a stroke; in Detroit. As Ford's right-hand man for 16 years, he designed the Model T. As one of the nation's foremost metallurgists, he sponsored the use of vanadium and molybdenum steels in automobile construction, was busy perfecting a new alloy (amola) at the time of his death...
...months ago The New Yorker delivered to its 152,777 subscribers the sixth and final installment of the longest "profile" (thumbnail biography) it ever ran. The subject: gun-toting, fox-faced Walter Winchell, No. 1 U. S. transom-peeper. The author: St. Clair McKelway, free-lance newshawk and onetime managing editor of The New Yorker. So sharp was Mc-Kelway's scalpel that Winchell, who had expected a pat on the head, did not realize until the operation was well begun that his throat was being slit. This week the operation appeared in book form for as many...