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...United Artists, two pictures. These will be produced by Selznick's new company, David O. Selznick Productions, Inc., 100% Selznick-owned. The new company will assume the contracts of such Selznick breadwinners as Vivien (Scarlett O'Hara) Leigh, Ingrid (Intermezzo) Bergman, Joan (Rebecca) Fontaine, dumpy Director Alfred Hitchcock...
Having taken three inches off his tremendous waistline in the last three months, British Cinema Director Alfred Hitchcock, now down to a mere 250 pounds (from 292), explained how he did it: not just by eating one normal meal a day instead of three huge ones, but by the mental anguish caused by the constant thought of the food he was missing...
...began to train hunters, steeple chase jumpers and polo ponies-on his estate at Aiken, S. C. Before long, Horse man Hitchcock, already a famed gentle man rider, was recognized as headmaster of steeplechase schooling...
While his equally horse-minded wife, the late Louise Eustis Hitchcock, taught two-legged thoroughbreds such as Winston Guest, Mike Phipps, Stewart Iglehart, Pete Bostwick and her own Tommy the ABCs of polo. Squire Hitchcock taught four-legged thoroughbreds the ABCs of jumping. Unlike most jumpers, Hitchcock's are neither converted flat racers nor hunters. He buys weanling thoroughbreds (both in Europe and the U. S.), with infinite patience and understanding, develops them into extraordinarily tractable jumpers. As yearlings, when most thoroughbreds are mighty kickuppy, Hitchcock's pets are as stolid as plow horses, let stable boys shinny...
...three decades, Hitchcock's jumpers have won more races than those of any other U. S. stable. Some years, they took almost half the total steeplechasing purses...