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...become chief of OWI's domestic branch, succeeding Gardner ("Mike") Cowles Jr., Des Moines publisher, just after the House of Representatives had torpedoed the bureau by withholding its funds. The Senate had not yet acted, but there was stormy weather ahead for OWI. Edwin Palmer ("Ep") Hoyt had a right to be nervous...
...began to read. It was a statement positive in tone, full of "will do" and "won't do." But in the light of the House action, it sounded throughout, to the newsmen, like "I had intended to do" and "it had been my hope not to do. . . ." Read Hoyt...
Reeling Rats. George Hoyt of Berkeley, Calif, said he had found that the best way to catch rats was to feed them frozen pudding flavored with sherry: "I got those rats so tight I could catch them with my bare hands...
...includes many peacetime instrumental stars: Benny Goodman's bass fiddler Artie Bernstein; 20th Century-Fox's concertmaster Felix Slatkin; Hal Kemp's ace trumpeter Mickey Bloom; Paramount's concertmaster Harry Bluestone (Master Sergeant Harry B. Blostein); Harry James's first trombonist Hoyt Bohannon; Toscanini's NBC cellist Edgar Lustgarten; Benny Goodman's hot trumpeter Manny Klein...
...complete picture: 10,200 feet). On the set, where shooting took place mostly at night (to allow Hughes to design planes for Henry J. Kaiser by day), he was usually unshaven, always unpredictable. He would phone his assistants at home at all hours and announce: "This is Mr. Hoyt." Often there would follow a long silence, broken finally when Hughes would bark briskly: "I just thought of something; I'll call you back later...