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Tongg, a crack skeet-shooter, had taken only a few potshots at established island businesses. But in 1946, he aimed deliberately at thriving, island-hopping Hawaiian Airlines (TIME, June 21). With four DC-35 he started unscheduled Trans-Pacific Airlines, which flew regularly enough to haul 10,000 inter-island passengers a month during the first year. By 1947, Ruddy managed to gross $103,000 and net $35,000 in one month. That was too much for Hawaiian Air. It got an injunction to keep Ruddy from flying on schedules; Ruddy's business dropped...
...basic black-and-white. journalistic character: you can't get involved because the hero doesn't draw sympathy. Director Mark Robson has shaded the film impersonally and perfectly. It is a tribute to his direction that the one strong emotion the audience feels is the desire to haul Midge Kelly up off the floor every time he gets knocked down. That is the strength of the film-a strength which overmatches its impersonality...
...Museum of Science in Boston which will open in about a year. It is a model to explain how the pyramids were constructed and is one of the most interesting engineering problems Pitman has come across. He is trying to show how it was physically possible to haul the huge blocks to the top of the giant pyramids...
...forthcoming revue. Next month he will start a daily 400-word syndicated column in more than 50 newspapers. He is getting ready to parlay his television winnings into a TV producing company, a TV school and, for tours of U.S. theaters, Milton Berle Television Units. In the long haul, he wants to produce and direct. Well fed at last, the great want still hungers for new conquests...
...started when Cinemactor Randolph Scott and a movie troupe went to Death Valley last fall to shoot scenes for The Walking Hills, and Ranger Stan was assigned as technical adviser. Between takes Stan would haul out his guitar and twang some of the songs he has composed while out on ranger trips. Scott & Co. told him he was great, that he should sell his songs in Hollywood...