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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day, a squall broke over the head of Judge Samuel H. Kaufman. California's Representative Richard M. Nixon demanded an investigation "to determine his fitness to serve on the bench." Cried Nixon: "His prejudice for the defense and against the prosecution was so obvious and apparent that the jury's 8-to-4 vote for conviction frankly came as a surprise to me." Illinois' Freshman Congressman Harold Velde, an ex-FBI agent, joined in: he cited six specific examples* of Judge Kaufman's actions which he said "bordered on misconduct." Nixon thought the Un-American...
Stocky, Russian-born L. B. Mayer, then 39 and an experienced film salesman, was especially sure of one thing: glamorous personalities were the movies' surest box office winners. Not everyone agreed with him, but by the time the screen started talking, L.B.'s star system had made M-G-M the most powerful voice in Hollywood. The studio splurged on giving its films a plushy elegance and a high gloss. If some happened to be mediocre entertainment, they were well insured at the box office with such names as Marie Dressier, Wallace Beery, Greta Garbo, Norma Shearer, Joan...
...celebrating its 25th birthday, M-G-M is still Hollywood's biggest studio (31 stages and 3,700 employees), and the only one to have run so long with regular dividends and without merger, bankruptcy or reorganization. For the anniversary year, no special day has been set for a celebration. But last week M-G-M executives kept a date that came close enough for the milestone: they trooped to a birthday luncheon for 64-year-old L. B. Mayer...
SIAM DOCTOR (255 pp.)-Jacques M. May-Doubleday...
Power of the Pen. In Cleveland, Roy Sparmon, in jail awaiting trial on forgery charges, faced three more similar charges when officials caught him passing bum checks to buy himself cigarettes and magazines. In Roanoke, Va., a few days after M. E. Lisic was released from jail, police rearrested him on charges of forging a check to pay his $5 fine...