Word: en
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frenzied Finance. When Gregor Ziemer's book Education for Death was en capsulated in Reader's Digest (February 1942), Hollywood had already passed it up. But one Manhattan movie man was interested. He was Edward A. Golden, a chubby, John Bunnyish old gentleman who had been a dentist for five years, a film distributor for 30. Distributor Golden had taken a shy at production not long before with a for-adults-only sermon on syphilis entitled No Greater Sin. The minute Golden read Education he knew it would make a picture. He even knew the title: Hitler...
...Hallowe'en motif was used for decorating the building and the wives and husbands provided entertainment for the affair. Mrs. Charles Van Voorhis sang several numbers to the accompaniment of planist Ens. Hubert Donaldson; a 12-year-old girl, Elaine Burke, performed tap and acrobatic dancing numbers; and a musical trio was accompanied by 1/c Yeoman Howard Locke. It included Mrs. Ben Hardy, Mrs. Earl Canfield and Mrs. Lee Mills. Ens. Jack Reichart was master of ceremonies...
Said Judge Learned Hand's majority opinion (Judge Augustus Hand - a cousin -concurring): "We conclude that the present bylaws of A.P. unlawfully restrict the admission of members; and that fur ther enforcement of them should be en joined." Judge Thomas Swan dissented...
...En route to St. Louis (Oct. 15) and Syracuse, N.Y. (Oct. 21 ), Wendell Willkie visited Los Angeles to see about One World. What happened is recounted herewith by TIME'S Los Angeles Correspondent, Sidney L. James. When much the same happened in San Francisco, it seemed to Californians that Willkie is the candidate other G.O.P. candidates must beat...
...popular and literate at the same time, tells of the efforts of a gallant old lady of reduced means (Grace George) to fight the local political octopus (Edward McNamara) through her newspaper. It also reports the help she gets, in dire extremity, from a hobo ex-journalist (James Gagney). En-route to victory the hobo develops an interest in the old lady's niece (Marjorie Lord), makes a useful friend of the whooping, plume-clad matron of the local sin hall (Marjorie Main), and punches his way through enough physical obstruction to appease those cinemaddicts who like James Cagney...