Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Adolphe Menjou, known for decades as cinema's fanciest-plumed male, got ready for a cross-country lecture tour that will give the citizenry the low-down on Hollywood. Said he: "Despite the fact that Hollywood is covered by more than 400 reporters, no one really knows what the town is like...
...show off its new line of Christmas merchandise, McKesson & Robbins, Inc. last week gave a holiday-style party for Houston druggists. There was eggnog, turkey with all the trimmings, even a Santa Claus (and to help welcome the druggists, three feminine assistants in low-cut gowns). McKesson hopes its customers enjoyed themselves enough to run its Christmas sales in Houston up to a million dollars this year, or double last Christmas' sales...
Died. Charles Round Low Cloud, 76, Indian columnist since 1919 for the weekly Black River Falls Banner-Journal (circ. 5,503), who "thought in Winnebago and wrote in English" and whose punctuation-less comments* on current events were reprinted by many a daily U.S. newspaper; in Back River Falls...
...Atlanta Constitution and 199 other papers, Columnist Westbrook Pegler paid his last respects to Margaret Mitchell, "this great historian and interpreter of a time before her time . . ." Atlantans probably shared his sentiments, but many gagged when Pegler went on to blame her for not realizing that those low-down New Dealers in Washington were as trashy as any damyankees and carpetbaggers of Gone With the Wind...
True to cinemilitary tradition, the film shows how crisis and the call of duty can regenerate the most cynical heel. As the heel, Richard Widmark sinks so low that only something as drastic as a hurricane can wash his sins away. A Naval Reserve pilot, he flies a plane for dope smugglers. In his spare time he drinks intemperately, cruelly casts off his sweetheart (Veronica Lake) and makes passes at the wife (Linda Darnell) of an old Navy buddy (John Russell...