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Tall in the Saddle and 500 other westerns are almost, but not quite, as indistinguishable as so many Lincoln pennies. What distinguishes this one is its discreet overall sense that the cast-iron predicaments, incisive fights, violent equitations, munificent landscapes and hay-stuffed creatures of such operas can be invested with some feeling both for humor and for authenticity. In advancing this idea, casually argued at best, the most efficient debaters are: 1) John Wayne, who is cinema's ablest proponent of rawhide masculinity; 2) neon-eyed Ella Raines, the most human and promising of the young sub-stars...
Died. Irving Patrick O'Hay, 74, dashing, Irish-born soldier of fortune and race horse trainer, self-styled "apostle of discontent"; of a heart attack; in Taos, N. Mex. He once complained that it was hard to feed himself between wars, was presented with the only gold meal ticket ever issued by the New York Society of Restaurateurs...
Died. Helen Hay Whitney, 68, daughter of Secretary of State John Hay, widow of Multimillionaire Payne Whitney, "First Lady of the Turf"; of shock following news of her son Jock's Nazi capture and escape; in Manhattan. Top inheritor of a $200,000,000 will, the largest ever accepted for probate in the U.S., poetry-writing Mrs. Payne Whitney was terrified by her one & only subway ride, lived quietly amid her magnificent Long Island gardens. First woman life-member of the Thoroughbred Club of America, Mrs. Whitney managed her famed Greentree Stable, won the Kentucky Derby with Twenty Grand...
Colonel John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, 40, who became the Nazis' richest U.S. prisoner when he was captured in southern France a month ago, escaped from a prison train, made his way back to U.S. lines. He told an awesome story of the destruction wreaked by U.S. airmen on German transport: the freight train on which he started toward Germany had taken eleven days to cover 80 miles, had three different locomotives on the journey. Reported a fellow fugitive: Jock was the coolest of all the prisoners, keeping up a blow-by-blow description of U.S. planes strafing the train...
Food Machinery Corp. will also build in its ten plants, scattered from California to Florida: 1) a dehydrating haymaker-that cuts hay and rolls it so that all moisture is squeezed out; 2) a new fast-moving sprayer for orchards; 3) a potato-harvesting machine that will dig, brush, grade and box potatoes in the field...