Word: gene
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wrecking several houses. Thirteen minutes after the explosion and 90 minutes before the news was filed for the Associated Press, the Amarillo (Tex.) Globe-News, 100 miles away, had the story. The Globe-News received 24 telephone calls from readers anxious to win the $10 prize offered by Publisher Gene Howe for the week's best news...
...contests, originated more than 20 years ago, have brought city papers many a sensational beat. Gene Howe's has brought the Globe-News an average of 50 stories a week: news of murders, wrecks, births in cabs, isolated hail storms, family fights, flights of geese. So enthusiastically do Globe-News reader-reporters respond that one, a woman involved in an auto accident, telephoned the paper before she called the police...
...Gene McElvaney "Sorry, no releases"... and so on into the night. These breaks ahead at Thanksgiving and Christmas also promise to make this next a fast moving four months...
...Laura" rates high for suspense value. Although Gene Tierney, who plays Laura, is murdered before the picture begins, her spectacular rise to fame and her peculiar death furnish the material for the plot. Detective Dana Andrews falls in love with a portrait of Laura. This upsets his sleuthing for a while until a near miracle occurs and the screen begins to swim with possible suspects...
...Laura (Gene Tierney) is an ambitious beginner in the advertising business when she dares to beard the exquisite columnist-commentator Waldo Lydecker (Webb) in his noontime lair at the Algonquin. Though her nerve earns her some carbolic insults from the great man, it makes her in almost no time his protegee. As such, she soon becomes a high-powered executive and gives a job to polo-playing Shelby Carpenter (Vincent Price), under the very nose of his only visible means of support, Park Avenue's well-heeled Ann Treadwell (Judith Anderson). Both Ann and Waldo are patently annoyed...