Word: mayers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Foilswoman Helene Mayer of San Francisco, German refugee: the women's national fencing championship; for the seventh time; winning all five bouts and yielding only four touches along the way; at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria. Only fencer able to alternate touches with her for even a brief spell was Manhattan's Helena Mroczkowska, who tied for second place with three wins, two losses...
...Miniver (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is that almost impossible feat, a great war picture that photographs the inner meaning, instead of the outward realism of World War II. Director William Wyler succeeds by the simple device of setting up an ideal middle-class English family in an ideal middle-class home, letting the Nazis knock both down. Result: what the Nazi bombers finally smash is not a house and household but (temporarily) man's hope of happiness...
...Cinemagnate Louis B. Mayer, $704,425.60. (He was tops for the second year running.) >Cinedoodle Dandy James Cagney...
Tortilla Flat (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), a picaresque tale of life among squalid California paisanos, has had an odd history...
...weeks ago, public indignation was aroused against the Satevepost for printing Milton Mayer's vicious article, "The Case Against the Jew." Attacked on all sides, the Post was forced to run ads in the three big New York dailies, apologizing for the "misunderstanding" that the article was anti-Semitic. Many, however, in spite of the Post's Protestations of innocence, belive that the editors knew what they were doing all along, that this article was part of the Post's old line of defeatism and spreading of race hatred...