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...fire by flirting with her boss (Franchot Tone). The boss is not skittish about marriage; he has tried it before. To knowing moviegoers, that sods him down. He stays in the running, all the same, until the ingenious huntress invents a third swain (Eddie Albert), meant to be a home-town admirer who yearns to take her away from it all. For a while, this invention staves off a trite ending, but can't prevent it. The chase ends with the proper man properly bagged...
...home-town Hitlers Dies produced for scrutiny scarcely answered his critics. The chairman got hold of George Deatherage, head of a tiny group known as the Knights of the White Camelia. Deatherage regaled the committee with his ideas concerning the need for booting radicals and Jews out of the country. He proudly claimed membership in an international anti-Communist organization which had headquarters in Rome but admitted that the German consul in this country had refused his requests for aid. The Nazis knew a small-time operator when they saw one, even if Martin Dies didn...
...year-old Indianapolis News, once published by Theodore Roosevelt's Vice President (Charles W. Fairbanks), was long the kingpin of the Hoosier press. James Whitcomb Riley and Kin Hubbard once graced its staff, and Press Lord Roy Howard, a home-town boy, got his first newspaper job at $4 a week. Lately, with rising costs and dwindling profits, the News needed a new building and new presses-and perhaps a new management...
...Memphis last week-the largest number of delegates ever to attend an annual Southern Baptist Convention. High on the agenda: the choice of a successor to President Louie De Votie Newton, a fundamentalist in his religion but a wide-eyed Russophile in his politics. The convention picked a home-town boy for the job: Dr. Robert Greene Lee, 61, of Memphis' Bellevue Baptist Church, the largest white Baptist congregation east of the Mississippi. He is famed for his preaching-especially for his spellbinding sermon, "Pay Day Some Day," on King Ahab and his wicked wife Jezebel. Last week...
...Nature Grand. The New York Herald Tribune printed a folksy bit of home-town news: "New York City was favored last night with a sunset that rivaled those of the tropics in its splendor . . . Pedestrians in midtown cross streets stopped to watch and remark to each other on its beauty. There were not only cloud strata tinted from brilliant orange to deep mauve, but there were streaks of vivid blue sky and a vertical path of vivid color that resembled the reddish-white color of an open-hearth steel furnace...