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Unless you're a timeaddict or have let Henry Luce spoil your fun with his picture mag, you'll find Paramount's MacMurray-Stanwyck-Edward G. Robinson thriller good and exciting entertainment, although you may be able to knock a few dents in the plot. James M. Cain writes tough, sharp prose, and judging from "Double Indemnity," his stuff makes even better moviegoing than reading...
...high-walled adobe jail of La Paz last week languished Mauricio Hochschild, probably the biggest mining mag nate in South America. Arrested as instigator of a plot against Provisional President Gualberto Villarroel (TIME, May 8), he was lucky to be alive. The Villarroel Government had thought of shooting him, then thought again when it pondered his connections, his influence, his hold on Bolivia. Instead of killing him, his captors handled him with the special care due such a special person...
...picture of the winning girl will replace the sinking ship on the cover of the V-12 gag-mag, The Periscope. Announcement of the winners and the runners-up will be made at the dance, and complete stories of the contest will be found in the magazine...
...Saloons with such names as the Alley Cat, Collar and Elbow, Pick and Shovel, Graveyard, Pay Day. >Waitresses with such names as Skip Chute, Mag the Rag, Hay ride, The Race Horse, Take-Five Annie, Ellen the Elephant, Little Egypt...
...Harrison (Harrison Oil Co.) traded his troubles and his company to the Mag nolia Petroleum Co. for $28,000,000; E. J. Fair and Roy River sold a chunk of their holdings to the Stanolind Oil & Gas Co.; American Liberty Oil Co. sold 25 wells for $1,113,000; Broderick & Calvert sold their West Texas holdings to Phillips Petroleum and Sun Ray Oil for $4,500,000; Buffalo Oil sold Gulf a half interest in north Texas wells for $1,000,000. The list is long-and in an oil short world-depressing...