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Cozy Purgatory. Perhaps the more accomplished of the two gooseflesh impresarios is F. L. (Odd Man Out) Green. His Ambush for the Hunter uncoils in a simple setting of domestic infelicity. Charles and Edna are a middle-aged London couple who have been putting a good face on their bad marriage for so long that they have almost forgotten what it really looks like. Charles is a well-placed civil servant with the aplomb of a head waiter and the moral fiber of an eel. Edna retreats into a cocoon of modern books, music and art. Into this cozy purgatory...
...farmer vote to cut the wheat price support in half?" Said Tom Graham, who plants 600 acres of wheat on his 3,000-acre farm north of Washington: "If wheat price supports fell to 50% it would hurt not only the farmer but every businessman in this county." Added Edna Dougherty, whose husband has 30 acres of wheat on his 120-acre farm: "After all, unions protect the laboring man, and these controls are what protect the farmers...
...Hollywood to discuss the filming of her Texas-baiting novel, Giant, Edna Ferber appeared unconcerned about how Texans would take to the movie. Said she: "I think they're kind of getting worn down now, like you do after a good big fight. They're wiping the sweat from their collective brows and admitting, 'Well, maybe some of us are like that, at that...
United We Stand. Convert Little's longest previous crusade was directed against Novelist Edna Ferber for daring to try to cut Texas down to midget size in Giant. Little turned out 39 columns about Novelist Ferber; in one, he offered to play host to an autographing party so that she could be publicly hanged ("The only new note in literary criticism ... in the last 30 years...
Hothead. In Leeds, England, Edna Illingworth got a divorce after testifying that her husband Richard 1) tied her up in the cellar, 2) bound her hands to a nail above her head, and 3) doused her with a bucketful of water "to cool...