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...many playwrights, producers seem a kind of necessary evil. Not only because they may blow hot & cold; not only because they may meddle. Also because, as the playwrights see it, they hog too much of the profits, impose too much of a capital-&-labor relationship...
...become a millionaire or President, sailed from France 29 years ago one Charles Eugene Bedaux. Although slight in stature and of no great muscle, this ambitious little Frenchman promptly took the highest paid job he could qualify for in Manhattan as an unskilled laborer, that of a "sand hog" digging skyscraper and subway foundations under heavy air pressure which gives a workman who emerges too quickly cramps and pains called "the bends." Using his brain as well as his shovel, Sand Hog Bedaux was able after a few years to begin living the American success story of which...
...Success when the onetime Sand Hog married as his second wife a pretty Daughter of the American Revolution, Middle-Western Miss Fern Lombard. It was Success when the small, swarthy little emigrant returned to his native France and bought for $750,000 a princely chateau in Touraine, ordering its ancient vineyard grubbed up to make a golf course which proved that Charles Eugene Bedaux had been thoroughly amalgamated in the American Melting Pot. It was Success for Mr. & Mrs. Bedaux to disport themselves on the Riviera with a wealthy Mr. and Mrs. Herman Rogers, one of whose dashing friends...
...Fascist troops in Granada last year. His best poem, written in 1935, was the Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejias (a bull-fighter). Readers who have hair that is capable of rising will feel scalped at several points in this harshly sensuous, musically calculated and fiercely whole-hog song of death, even in the literal translation which A. L. Lloyd prints along with the original Spanish...
Ugliest animal in The Bronx, according to Messrs. Ditmars & Bridges, is Clarence, the wart hog, whose keeper stoutly defends him as "the nicest animal in the zoo." Rarest animal is the new okapi (TIME, Aug. 10). Now that Dr. Ditmars has it, what he wants most is an Australian earth worm twelve feet long...