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...Republican morning Herald, the least harum-scarum typographically, carries the most foreign, i.e., out of Boston, news. Its sprightly editorial-page column by Rudolph Elie, also the Herald's able music critic, is probably the brightest newspaper writing done in the city; its editorials last year by John Crider, editorial page editor, were good enough to win a Pulitzer Prize for general excellence. The Herald's biggest circulation asset is Sportwriter Bill Cunningham, whose orotund mastery of the cliche is often a frontpage delight to readers. Wrote Cunningham from the Florida training camps last week: "Theodore Samuel Williams...
...Cray, a real-life cross between David Harum and Scattergood Baines, the bankers spelled out the problem. In Brattleboro, 20 miles down the river, the United Murray Heel Co. had an antiquated factory, like many another New England company, and wanted to move. But it couldn't afford a new plant. By building one, the bankers explained, they could keep the company near home. Murray, with 125 employees and a payroll of $4,500 had an annual production of 7,000,000 wooden heels for women's shoes, cut from rock maple. While the bankers doodled with interest...
...City (MGM) demonstrates that Clark Gable still cuts a manly figure in his underwear, still generates the tough, swaggering charm that made him a durable favorite of U.S. women moviegoers. To get Gable's clothes off and otherwise display his talents, M-G-M has slapped together a harum-scarum comedy that tries anything for a laugh, and sometimes succeeds. But the effort is more conspicuous than...
Something for the Girls. "There'll always be risks, and there'll always be accidents, but we can cut out a lot of the harum-scarum stuff without spoiling the thrills," Schindler says. With the development of the brutish little Offenhauser motors, midgets today seldom hide under the cowl outboard motors or souped-up Ford engines. Modern midgets have hit as high as 142 m.p.h. on a straightaway. On the small tracks, the doodlebugs have a ceiling of about 75 m.p.h., since chauffeurs have to negotiate a new curve every four or five seconds...
Unlike most big U.S. cities, Kansas City also has an undisputed first citizen. He is Roy Allison Roberts, president and general manager of the Kansas City Star, a 265-lb. extravert who presides over his domain with the shrewd joviality of Falstaff and the hearty acumen of David Harum. He looks like the jolly personification of the sun at midday. He achieved and holds his zenith because of a deceptive appearance of innocence (his favorite description of himself: "I'm just a big, fat country boy"), almost inexhaustible energy, and a congenital talent for politicking...