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...Broadway antics in Angel in the Wings (1948), Hartman appeared frequently on television and made numerous films, among them Inherit the Wind (1960) and Luv (1967). He had recently begun preparing for a major supporting role in a movie of Nathanael West's The Day of the Locust...
...unsatisfied appetite for news during the strike is reflected by a locust-like attack on anything printed. Newsmagazines, the Wall Street Journal and other national publications sell out within hours of hitting the stands. On a recent Sunday morning at a suburban newsstand, readers lined up in the rain to buy out-of-town papers. They brought folding chairs for the long wait; enterprising teen-agers hawked coffee and doughnuts. When 1,100 copies of the New York Times went on sale, they were snapped up in less than an hour. Five hundred Chicago papers, sold by scalpers at more...
...Locust Valley...
...midcentury America: Joe DiMaggio, the province of Muscle, and Arthur Miller, the state of Egghead,--Mailer had himself attacked Hollywood, largely on the strength of his first novel, and having failed as a scriptwriter, wrote a good, serious second echelon novel about Hollywood. While no Day of the Locust nor a Last Tycoon, Mailer's Deer Park was grudgingly accorded its own stubborn virtues a decade after its publication. At that point in his career, Mailer found the challenge of the novel paralyzingly demanding. In the appraisal which followed the finishing of the work, Mailer revealed that he had decided...
...warehouse in a sidestreet in Bayside, Queens. All sales are for cash. Except for the Rosenbergs, who sometimes help unload trucks, only part-time employees mind the store. They include moonlighting policemen, housewives and four or five high school basketball players from the Friends' Academy in Locust Valley, N.Y. Clerks make no effort to push a particular brand or persuade customers to buy a higher-priced item; they simply take orders. Yet JGE turns over $300,000 worth of stock about every two weeks...