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...asking you who she is, net how she is," protested 'Theodore P. Allegretti '47, president of the Harvard Dramatic Club, when initial returns to the Club's "Miss Juno" contest gave the shapely maid the worst of it in comparisons with the Black Dahlia, Ann Corio, and Mrs. Pruneface...
...flower seeds, introduced a sweet pea called the Cuthbertson, notable for long stems and resistance to summer heat. Manhattan's Max Schling Seedsmen, Inc., the Tiffany of seed houses (it once got as much as $10 for a packet of delphinium seeds), offered a "Tyrian pink and yellow" dahlia at $15 for a single tuber...
...Angeles, Hearst's Examiner assigned twelve reporters to a sex murder, glamorously christened it the Black Dahlia case. On the rival Daily News, an anonymous city-room hand posted a catalogue of helpful cliches...
...Angeles police searched for the person who had killed black-haired Elizabeth Short, then defiled and butchered her body and dumped it in a vacant lot. Friends had nicknamed her the "Black Dahlia," which made the crime more piquant. Portland, Ore. was having a crime wave. Taxi drivers, tired of being robbed by patrons, carried guns. A woman was knocked on the head as she entered her automobile. Murders averaged one a week. Three youths were arrested for killing a sea captain and dumping his body over a cliff...
Their black-and-white style is peculiarly fitted for motion pictures. Cain's "Mildred Pierce" and "Double Indemnity" and Chandler's "Farewell My Lovely" (filmed under the title "Murder, My Sweet") were made into pictures of real power. Chandler's latest is "The Blue Dahlia," a story of three discharged Navy fliers just back in L.A. from the South Pacific. One of them, played by Hugh Beaumont, is the straight man; there's nothing wrong with him. William Bendix, who has never turned in a bum performance, does a beautiful job as the ex-gunner who has a steel plate...