Word: director
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enormous deal of research on his work. His studio was piled high with authentic costumes for the children and servants to sweat in, while he painted them (he never even sketched without models). Later, all this was to be a boon to Hollywood. When Producer Walter Wanger and Director Victor Fleming were making plans for Ingrid Bergman's Joan of Arc, they found tips for both costumes and settings in Boutet de Monvel...
...last week Jack Schermerhorn, a police reporter on the Detroit Free Press, hustled from the police station to the office. He was looking for Malcolm Wallace Bingay, Free Press editorial director, and he was going to give him a thrashing. Schermerhorn had just read Bingay's new book, Of Me I Sing (Bobbs-Merrill; $3.50),.and he didn't like what Bingay had written about his father and his uncle (James Schermerhorn, once editor of the Detroit Times). Sample: "I have never met a more precise and perfect example of a hypocrite...
...News fired him, because "I was saying the right things in the wrong way and doing a lot of drinking," and later he joined the Free Press. As editorial director, Bing masterminded a story on an American Legion parade that won five Free Press reporters the Pulitzer prize. He began a daily column, "Good Morning," composed of topical comment, literary notes and bad puns. Later, when Detroit went pennant-crazy over its 1934 baseball team, he wrote a sports column as "Iffy the Dopester." Loaded with literary allusions and folksy idiom, the "Iffy" columns became a Detroit craze. There were...
Comic Arthur Godfrey has probably caused the biggest uproar among would-be censors by exhibiting a miniature outhouse and describing it as his "office." But such clear-cut cases of bad taste are not the only problem. Raymond Nelson, director of Du Mont's Fashions on Parade, points to color as one difficulty: on the TV screen, dresses of certain shades of red make a girl look undressed. TV avoids negligees, slips, nightgowns and foundation garments-even on dummies. "No matter how you look at it," says Nelson, "a wax dummy on television is a nude woman...
...smoking, argued New Orleans' Dr. Alton Ochsner, can be blamed for the increase of cancer of the lung. Surgeon Ochsner, a nonsmoker, was positive. Dr. Charles S. Cameron, A.C.S. medical and scientific director, who does smoke, was not so sure. For every expert who blames tobacco for the increase of cancer of the lung, he said, there is another who says tobacco is not the cause...