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Henry Wallace, the Iowa horticulturist, emerged last week as the centerpiece of U.S. Communism's most authentic-looking fagade. The facade was Wallace's helter-skelter following, assembled under careful Communist supervision at a founding convention in Philadelphia and brazenly labeled the Progressive Party...
...Canada's forests were going up in smoke. In Toronto last week, Forestry Expert Howard Kennedy reported to Premier George Drew on a 15-month survey of Ontario's timber resources. He told of appalling waste from helter-skelter cutting, which left many a fallen tree to rot. Unless something drastic is done, said Expert Kennedy, Ontario's lumber industry "will continue to diminish in importance to such an extent that before 25 years it will be classed as a minor industry...
...story is as breathlessly helter-skelter as most Chandler yarns. Unlike most, it strews only a modest number of red herrings and thus makes reasonable sense at the fadeout. Detective Montgomery is hired by a glamorous crime-fiction editor (Audrey Totter) to track down the missing wife of her publisher-boss (Leon Ames). The lady of the title never appears in the film because she is dead at the bottom of a lake. Before Montgomery finally catches up with the killer-and with love-he has bulled his way through brass knuckles, a moldy jail, various sinister strangers, venal policemen...
...Ecoles and the rue Monge, defend chiffonage. Said Cormaud: "It's those fly-by-nights who cause all the trouble. They have no sense of professional standards. Instead of emptying each can carefully on a burlap sack to sort it out, they dump the garbage helter-skelter on the sidewalk. That way they give the profession a bad name...
...Faces, Old Roles. Amidst this latest fracas in City Hall and the troubles of its latest mayor, the city of helter-skelter hills, hodgepodge houses, crawling cable cars, fogs and fish smells goes about its play and business, cynical, tolerant and urbane...