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There's a movie which is almost worth sitting through. Its title, "Butch Minds the Baby," should man something. It concerns a gangster, Broderick Crawford, who is reformed by minding a baby, and a cop, Dick Foran, who is a bit too faithful to his part. Faning Virginia Bruce fades in and out occasionally. The picture is a little too long, its plot a trifle illogical, but its dialogue can't always get away from the fact that it was adapted from Damon Runyan, and is consequently good. If the omission of the "Harvard Blues" is considered an unpardonable...
...something worth watching, for Mike Benedum is the luckiest wildcatter ever. With a $500 grubstake and more nerve than a circus trapezist, he got into the oil business in the '90s. In no time at all he made a killing in West Virginia oil, discovered the then huge Crawford Field in Illinois, lost most of his cash in Oklahoma mud. Then he whipped off again, struck the fabulous Caddo pool in Louisiana, moved on to drill in Mexico, Venezuela, Canada, Europe. Most spectacular was his discovery of the great Texas Yates pool, only 16 years ago. Although he owns...
...Kiss For Cinderella (by Sir James M. Barrie; produced by Cheryl Crawford & Richard Krakeur). Twenty-five years after Maude Adams chose A Kiss For Cinderella for her last appearance on Broadway, Cinemactress Luise Rainer chose it for her first. Twenty-five years can do even crueler things to a play than to a woman...
Masterminding W9XBK's school was one of the strangest geniuses ever to wear the Navy's gold braid: gaunt, towering, post-deaf Lieut, (j.g.) William Crawford Eddy, U.S.N. Retired, who went from NBC's Manhattan television studio to build and operate W9XBK for Balaban & Katz in the fall...
...band of doctors and volunteers in Cuba, headed by Dr. Walter Reed, allowed themselves to be bitten by infected mosquitoes, proved Dr. Carlos Finlay's contention (announced in 1881) that yellow fever was carried by Aedes aegypti. A few years later, by draining and oiling swamps, Dr. William Crawford Gorgas rid Panama of yellow fever, reduced malaria, made possible the building of the Canal...