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...improvement in his ability to change pace. Leading sub for Berg is Red Willcox, who is improving rapidly. He is steadier now than he was at the start of the season, and he has more control than before. Also on the first team hurling staff are Dick Segnitz and Jock Dean...

Author: By Dan H. Fenn jr., | Title: Lining Them Up | 4/23/1941 | See Source »

About 50 years ago Sir "Jock" Broughton [TIME, March 24] and I were boys together. Though not wholly together since he was the son of a baronet and I only the son of his father's gamekeeper. Many times subsequently I might have wanted to exchange places with Jock. But now he is charged with murder and I do not even want to kill anyone, except, of course, the mad dogs of Berlin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 21, 1941 | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

With the gentlemen on this moonlit East African night were a Mrs. June Carberry and pretty, chic Diana Caldwell, 29. The four had wined, dined and danced, and they watched the fireflies a while before calling it a night. Then Sir Jock drove Mrs. Carberry home, and the Earl, Miss Caldwell. Several hours later the Earl's car was found on a lonely road in the bush. Crumpled on the floor beneath the wheel was the dead body of the Earl, a bloodied bullet hole near the left ear. It looked like suicide-but there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENYA: Maughamesque | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

...started last summer with the founding of the Office for Coordination of Commercial and Cultural Relations between the American Republics, headed by Nelson Rockefeller. Looking to the cinema as a potent field for propaganda Rockefeller established a Motion Picture Division. Wise choice to handle this division was hard-working Jock Whitney who has made his Long Island fortune speak Hollywood s language in two profitable ventures-Technicolor and Selznick International. In Hollywood it is chic to know Jock, who plays six-goal polo and owns a racing stable, a privilege to do business with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 24, 1941 | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

...Jock organized Hollywood like lightning. Calling together the production heads of the studios, he told them his plan said he hoped they would try to eliminate offensive Latin Americans from their pictures-the lazy louts, the greasy villains the slimy gigolos. Next he suggested they try to sprinkle their schedules with films that would appeal to the South American market, films that also gave a pleasant picture of life in the U. S. Perhaps, he added hopefully, they might send their stars south of the border now & then to drum up a little good will for the industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 24, 1941 | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

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