Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subject for polite, Hays-worthy cinema treatment, Sam Houston presented able Screenwriter Wells Root and his collaborators with notable problems. Houston's career as Governor was terminated abruptly when, for reasons which have never been completely explained, he left his first wife and the Governor's mansion almost simultaneously, three months after his marriage. In this picture, Houston (Richard Dix) is deserted by his bride and resigns later to spare her unpleasant publicity. The years when he lived among the Cherokee Indians, who called him "Big Drunk," are glossed over in a few sequences showing...
...bite of the deadly fer-de-lance snake; in Panama City. Veteran snake-man, Curator March had extracted venom from some 35,000 snakes, had been bitten 17 times. In 1930, forced by nervous neighbors to move his snake farm from his Haddon Heights, N. J. home, Herpetologist March left the U. S., established the Old Panama...
Husky John Brookes taught school in Washington for six years to put himself through George Washington University, left in 1913 with a gridiron reputation, an M. A. and LL.B. cum laude. Going to Atlanta as a stranger to practice law, he attracted both friends and clients by acting as line coach for the Georgia Tech football team under famed John William Heisman. In 1917 he went to Pittsburgh to form a legal department for the Mellon-controlled Koppers Co. (coal, coke, gas, tar), rose to be a vice president and director. Through his friend Cyrus Eaton of Republic Steel Corp...
Since then, said Lawyer Cohen, Viggo Bird has made $304,000, paid $190,000 of it to the unnamed lender. This left only some $114,000 ($11,400 a year) before income taxes to support his wife and four children. Mrs. Bird frequently did her own washing and the girls sometimes scrubbed floors and cooked. Their moderate-sized house was beautifully kept, but they drove a Ford. Finally the strain got too great. Thinking the market was going up, Viggo Bird embezzled...
...reviews, amiable literary gossip, mildly titillating personal ads, weekly word puzzle, reached some 30,000 readers. Dr. Canby stepped down as editor in 1936, irascible Bernard De Voto stepped up. Two years later De Voto turned over direction to young, good-natured George Stevens. Last week another shake-up left The Saturday Review with the same editors but new owners. Purchaser was tall, hard-working Joseph Hilton Smyth, onetime pulp editor, conductor of a mimeographed sheet analyzing foreign affairs, who in the last year has taken over Current History and two venerable, distinguished magazines: Living Age (founded in 1844), North...