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Died. Walter C. (for Crawford) Howey, 72, onetime holy terror of Chicago journalism, immortalized as the managing editor in The Front Page (by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur), since 1930 editorial director of the Boston Hearst papers, the Record, the American, the Sunday Advertiser (total circ. 1,748,437); in Boston. In Chicago, Howey became city editor of the Tribune at 25, editor of the Hearst Her aid-Examiner ten years later. Ignoring events outside Chicago, Editor Howey concentrated on local mayhem and scandal, paid police-switchboard operators to tip him off on the latest crime, delighted in planting fake...
Accompanying her are two other stars who were not so well known fourteen years ago, but whose performances were accurate prevues of the future. Broderick Crawford, as a fellow derelict, is a slob not so far removed from his role in All the king's Men. Unfortunately he has little to do but yell "gangway" while ushering Dietrich through crowds of unrestrained worshippers. And John Wayne, playing a wholesome young lieutenant, has not strayed much from the clean-cut but two-fisted type...
...first surprise: a spectacular but somewhat deceptive shift to the left. When a U.S. soldier is kidnaped, his father (Broderick Crawford), a rampant capitalist with high connections in Washington, makes a stratoline for Berlin to "get some action" out of the military-government bureaucrats stationed there. For a little while-as the big businessman blabbers influentially in the press club and blubbers helplessly under the withering word-fire of an intelligence officer (Gregory Peck) who dares to use his intelligence-the picture is strongly reminiscent of a leftish political cartoon from the '30s in which a hog in striped...
Durable Cinemactress Joan Crawford hopped off a train in Manhattan, allowed that the weather was colder than it was in home town San Antonio, where she had dropped off for a visit, then rushed away to have "a little fun in New York...
...winners include Radcliffe Student Council President Clementine K. Kuhlman of Briggs Hall and Nashville, a social relations major; Ann H. Besser of Holmes Hall and south Orange, N.J., a music major; Ann Crawford of Holmes Hall and Pasadena, Cal., an English major; Phyllis La Farge of Eliot Hall and New York City, a romance languages major; and Eva L. Neubauer of Briggs Hall and New York City...