Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these classes is dominated by a House champion. At 145 Tom Butler of Dunster is the favorite, at 165 Hugh Smith of Winthrop leads the pack, and at 175 George McNear of Kirkland is favored. McNear won the unlimited title in the House tourney, but was able to make the weight at 175 for this match. Footballer Phil Isenberg, House winner at 175 pounds, is not competing. Isenberg won the title by a TKO last year...
...Marquand's latest epic has been reviewed in all of the important magazines, his face has graced the covers of two of them in the same week, and the royalties will undoubtedly make him a much richer man than he already is. Even more than in his previous novels, he deals with a subject which will interest millions of people who can easily fit themselves into the place of Charley Gray, Mr. Marquand's protagonist. In addition, "Point of No Return" is written in a style so slick and even that one glides through it effortlessly, like sliding down...
...hundreds of companies that make a living out of novelty hats, the fashion whims of the U.S. moppet mean the difference between feast & famine. Success in this fast-moving, heads-up business is often a fluke. But last week Ben Molin and Joe Rosenbaum, owners of Brooklyn's Benay-Albee Novelty Co., thought they had it down to a pseudoscience, something like phrenology...
Hollywood used to shy away from heavy "messages" and social consciousness, but last week the moviemakers were feverishly racing one another to make problem pictures. Emboldened by last season's success at denouncing anti-Semitism (Crossfire, Gentleman's Agreement) and examining mental illness (The Snake Pit), Hollywood was tackling a new and difficult subject: the Negro problem. Apparently no one was much worried about how it would do at the box office; the only question was which company would get its picture out first...
...tentacles of Air-India operating over 6,000 miles of airways; its vast, nationalized (but hardly modernized) railroad system, fourth largest in the world; the radio station at New Delhi, looking like a maharaja's palace; and its huge cotton mills. The film is cut and paced to make forcefully clear the disorder and vitality, the sloth and aspiration of an ancient country in the process of becoming a modern nation...