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...floor and heaved another: a resolution warning exhibitors against showing "motion pictures produced or directed by Nazis, Fascists or Communists." The resolution, approved unanimously by the Senate, has no legal effect. But its purpose, said Big Ed bluntly, "is to put the industry on notice. If ... they do not heed the thing-then we'll have to see what else we can do about...
George Willard Smith last week decided to heed his own actuarial tables: at 66, he moved from the presidency into the board chairmanship of the New England Mutual Life Insurance Co. Into the presidency went affable, sandy-haired O. (for Oscar) Kelley Anderson, 43, onetime Iowa farm boy and longtime crack investment...
...Hubbard, 39, a swashbuckling, red-haired six-footer, originally unveiled dianetics in the magazine Astounding Science-Fiction. As a result, its earliest devotees were science fiction fans. When Dianetics was first published (Hermitage House; $4), doctors and psychologists paid it little heed. But last week some were getting in on what seemed like a good thing. The Los Angeles Times carried an ad: "Those interested in receiving dianetic auditing please telephone DU 2-3260." At the end of the line was Dr. Vernon Bronson Twitchell, psychologist; he said he got about a dozen calls...
...green, wooded valley, many speakers spoke many ringing words, but to these the Scouts paid little heed. They stood lackadaisically in formation, answered commands with a muffled "Get a load of Big Shot" or "Boy, are you a brain." It was more fun pitching tents, roasting 25 miles of frankfurters, getting sunburned, sending home 3,000 wires a day and-most of all-poking fun at and bartering with each other...
...from noon to nightfall in search of subjects to paint. Back in his room he worked under a single light until, as he wrote, "the petrol lamp outside in the street clashed with the blue of the predawn sky." But few Parisians paid Chagall's nightmarish canvases much heed. Just before the Russian Revolution he returned to Vitebsk, where he founded a school of fine arts...