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...More Steak-Hunting. The worst case was Britain's. Short of coal, food and labor, Britain is going broke at the rate of $2 billion annually. In the House of Commons last week, Tory R. A. ("Rab") Butler, in his maiden speech as Chancellor of the Exchequer, grimly announced that in October alone Britain's dollar deficit was $320 million; additionally, Britain owes its continental neighbors some $500 million.* The sterling area's gold reserve (down to an approximate $2.8 billion) is dwindling faster than ever before. "If we do not . . . correct the disparity between what...
...winnowed out of a Pulitzer-prize history by Bernard DeVoto, the story tamely recalls 1950'S Broken Arrow, without its surprise or suspense. Trapper Gable marries a proud Indian maiden (Maria Elena Marques) so he can use her to ease his way into the beaver-rich bailiwick of her grandfather, a Blackfoot chief (played by well-disguised Oldtimer Jack Holt). On the trail, he learns to love and respect her. Their marriage wins the blessing of the Blackfoot ruler and gives them a son. But when one of Gable's men kills the old chief to satisfy...
...Tanya Matthews makes abundantly clear in Journey Between Freedoms, such a flight would be the answer to many a Russian maiden's prayer. Though told with small art and smudged with restatements of the obvious, her autobiography does serve one significant purpose: it tells the day-to-day story of many thousands of Tanyas who cannot tell their...
Their encounter took place in Ciro's, an expensive Sunset Strip night-eyrie. Tone walked in with his wife and her maiden aunt, a Miss Fay Redfield of Cloquet, Minn. Barbara had just returned to town for three personal appearances, two in theaters and one before a federal grand jury which was interested in a dope-peddling murder (she had supplied the suspect's alibi). Franchot stepped to Florabel's table...
...wolf gazed hungrily at the shapely maiden. Then he drooled and howled. But no moviegoer ever saw that scene from MGM's cartoon, Red Hot Riding Hood. Hollywood's censor, the Breen office, which hardly blinks at a human wolf on the screen, turned a prompt thumbs-down on the cartoon version. Last week Producer Walter Lantz sounded off on some other rules of cartoon censorship...