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Daily Hudler is publisher of a weekly newspaper, the Times, in the little town (pop. 5,575) of Noblesville, Ind. One day last December a slight, cigar-chewing, onetime State policeman, Carl Losey, turned up in Noblesville, said he would like to buy Mr. Hudler's Noblesville press. Mr. Hudler said he was willing...
They got together in a lawyer's office and drew up the papers. Mr. Hudler was about to sign when Losey's Indianapolis lawyer pulled out a fat wallet, selected two crisp $5,000 bills as a down payment, planked them on the table. In a town like Noblesville you don't close a deal with $5,000 banknotes-you offer a certified check. Mr. Hudler thought it over awhile. Then he said: "I don't believe I'll sell my press...
...Hagen, wife of the U. S. Naval attache in Stockholm, landed in Manhattan carefully carrying a pouch which she had been told contained the ashes of Captain Robert M. Losey (U. S. attache killed in Dombas, Norway during a Nazi air raid). Opened, the pouch was found to contain affidavits of Losey's death, nothing else...
...Spain while an officer in the Loyalist Army-in charge of the script, it was wanted by the Theatre Guild, rumored sold to Gilbert Miller, to Jock Whitney. No rumor held water long. Last week, it was officially announced that The Fifth Column had been sold to Joseph Losey. The terms: $1,000 advance royalty, production by October 15. Losey, 29, is the husband of Dressmaker-Author Elizabeth Hawes (Fashion Is Spinach), has been stage manager for Jed Harris and Gilbert Miller, director for the Federal Theatre Project. Mentioned hopefully for lead in The Fifth Column: Cinemactor Gary Cooper...
...respect, at least, this must be considered the most significant play presented at Harvard for many a year. An amateur production which can boast among its designers Virgil Thomson, collaborator with Gertrude Stein in that lady's only opera, and Joe Losey, director of "Lil' Ole Boy," is rare indeed. But the consideration of these facts must make the critical judgment of the effort more searching than would otherwise be the case. In respect to theme, "A Bride for the Unicorn" cannot be considered as more than a competent synthesis of a group of philosophical and aesthetic conceptions which have...