Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Taking movies of every single play in each game is no small item in the football budget, but no one will deny their worth in teaching the science of gridiron technique. Harlow runs the pictures over and over again for the benefit of his squad. A coach can tell Joe or Bill repeatedly that he missed a certain block, but when the boy sees it there preserved for posterity on the silver screen, well, it makes a lasting impression on Joe or Bill...
...local police, 2) to cause him to remove trees not designated." He was fired in July 1937, after letting a falling tree damage a city truck. But Mr. Hunter's real target was rich, Roosevelt-hating Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick, whom he brashly labeled "vicious" and "irrational." Other item: One Tribune article told of "Johnny," a young Italian "who has never known any work but WPA" and, according to Blackburn, didn't want any. "Johnny," cracked Mr. Hunter, was a former newspaper distributor and bookkeeper who had been trying for a long time to get back some money...
Arrival of color photography as a standard item of Hollywood technique will be signalized only when critics give it the final seal of their approval by not mentioning it at all. Valley of the Giants is photographically far enough ahead of its time to deserve this type of accolade. Rich forest greens, the deep tones of turn-of-the-century interiors, the cheerful glow of full bottles on a well-stocked bar help immeasurably to give the picture character and substance. Its life blood, however, is a story which, although it is a throwback to silent cinema classics, has derived...
...adding one more upside-down item to an already topsy-turvy world, a waggled finger at TIME'S printer...
ROSSINI-RESPIGHI: LA BOUTIQUE FANTASQUE (London Philharmonic, Eugene Goossens conducting; Victor: 6 sides). A familiar item in the repertory of the Ballet Russe, Choreographer Massine's Fantastic Toyshop has memorably tuneful music. Performance first rate...