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...logical playmate for Fascist Pelley was Carl Losey. He joined Indiana's Ku Klux Klan in its heyday in 1923. Klansman Losey sported the first bulletproof vest in Indiana, served as a personal bodyguard for Imperial Grand Dragon David Curtis Stephenson, who was convicted of second-degree murder at Noblesville in 1925, is now serving a life term in the penitentiary. Fiftyish Carl Losey looks ten years younger, always carries a heavy-calibre revolver. Graduate of no law school, he is a member of the Indiana...
From it emerged a fact that the recent heyday of the American Youth Congress had obscured-youths differ among themselves as much as with their elders. At week's end, its differences clarified, Youth sorted itself into a variety of organizations and galloped ardently in all directions...
...southeast corner of Texas, along the Gulf of Mexico, lie the King and Kenedy ranches, which in their heyday were bigger than the little feudal domains of Europe.* Eighty-seven years ago, two Rio Grande riverboat captains, Richard King and Mifflin Kenedy, working as partners, founded what was to become the biggest fenced ranch in the U. S. Visitors said that it was 100 miles from Captain King's front gate to the front door of his ranch house. They also said that, when the partners split up, the documents were less like contracts than like treaties between...
...heyday of Manhattan's stage the Theatre Guild published a quarterly house organ. Started in 1919, the Guild magazine became a monthly ten years later, in 1932 acquired a new name, Stage. About that time John Hanrahan, one of the early backers of The New Yorker, took over management of Stage. Up went circulation until it hit 55,000, up went Stage's price to 35?. Then Manhattan box-office receipts began to skid, and down went Stage with them. In June 1939, Stage dropped its curtain for the summer, did not reopen...
...Christmas All This and Heaven Too was a bestseller. Warner hands began to pat Warner shoulders. Warner minds began to be obsessed with the idea that they owned another Gone With the Wind. In its heyday Gone With the Wind had been known among other things as GWTW. Discreetly at first, Warner tongues began to refer to All This and Heaven Too as ATAHT. It was one letter longer. The psychological moment had come to turn the valuable property into a movie...