Word: franticness
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...even to make a screen test. David Selznick, who now claims to have recognized Pecks talent from the first, was also in there nibbling (characteristically, Selznick eventually walked away with the lion's share). There is a touch of more than Hollywood's habitual fantasy in these frantic negotiations for the services of a promising, impoverished, idealistic, unknown young stage actor...
Such a friendly, nonpartisan act was a rarity in the session's frantic final week. Both parties played furious and sometimes shabby politics. There were parries and thrusts-over the listing of grain speculators (see Investigations), over interim aid for Europe and China, and over inflation controls...
...strike-the first big test of the Taft-Hartley Act. A few hours later the strike was on. The printers promised 24-hour-a-day picket lines around the six Chicago dailies. The publishers promised they would print anyway, by photoengraving. The papers began a frantic scramble to hire typists. The Sun hired 80 and set up day and night shifts. All the papers buckled down to give Chicago its daily news, in spite of the strike...
Despite the more local frantic antics of 2000 high school musicians who cavorted between the halves of the Donelli-led Boston University upset over Colgate in Fenway Park, the New England accolade for musical mayhem still went to the Crimson bandsmen over the weekend...
...will recall Franny Loe's 88-yard run through the rain and mud in 1941, also in Palmer Stadium, to give the visitors a 6 to 4 victory; others will remember last fall's 13 to 12 triumph for the Crimson at Nassau, as Harlow's team withstood a frantic Tiger assault and Carl Libert's passes in the final minutes of play...