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...time Howard Hughes's mother, Allene Gano, was born, the family was established in the top drawer of Texas aristocracy...
...idea is that you begin living the M.R.A. standards"). But there is nothing vague about the M.R.A. technique. Teams of 50 to 500 Buchmanites, many of them apple-cheeked, athletic Britons, have descended en masse upon communities, distributing literature, staging M.R.A. morality plays and organizing banquets to provide top-drawer local backing (like Los Angeles' George L. Eastman) for M.R.A. speakers...
...monthly's biggest asset was an intangible: the talents of its 366 owner-contributors. But there had been no brilliant, tough editor to put those talents to work effectively. In the 16 months since '48 had started (as '47), it had bought too much bottom-drawer stuff, because it could not afford the prices other magazines paid for top-drawer pieces. The magazine had improved notably after Editor Richard E. Lauterbach, former LIFE staffer, took over seven months ago-but not enough to withstand the spring newsstand slump. It was running only a little above its advertising...
Sergeant Toomey discovered no foot-prints outside the first-floor windows, but did find a set of fingerprints in the desk drawer of James P. Morton '51, the third roommate. These are now being checked against national flies in Washington...
...Hollywood Reporter's W. R. Wilkerson, who often picks up views lying around in the industry's top (or second) drawer, announced: "During the past five or six years our production efforts have been just too damned arty. We've been shooting over the heads of our ticket buyers and . . . audiences have not been happy . . . because, seemingly, our producers forgot all about their tastes...