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...greatly interested by your article [TIME, Feb. 10] about Mrs. Anthony C. Hartley (Deborah Kerr), because of the fact that I knew R.A.F. Squadron Leader Bartley when he was stationed at the Orlando, Fla. Army Air Base. I ... have wondered why the great L.B. [Louis B. Mayer] doesn't make his find a double-header and make a movie star out of Tony...
...power-pregnant NYU machine led by versatile Irv Mondschein. A violet in name only, Mondschein broad jumps better than 25 feet, high jumps 6 feet 7 inches, and is entered in 5 events. To assist hi, the New Yorkers have a pair of 50 foot shot-putters, Mayer and Lampert, Max Padla, a 250-pound weightman, and the Callender twins...
...Movieman L. B. Mayer's favored Stepfather finished first in a mad scramble down the stretch in Santa Anita's $50,000 San Vicente Handicap. Then three rival jockeys complained that Stepfather had fouled them in a bumping bee, and for 16 minutes the judges debated. Their decision: disqualify Stepfather, make second place Hubble Bubble the winner...
With a roar from its patented lion, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer last week stalked into the phonograph-record industry. Nobody was too surprised. But the roar was loud enough to make old-line record companies mighty nervous...
Their difficulties, indeed, are more interesting than the finished product. Both Paramount and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer wanted to make the picture. When it was agreed that Metro would make it, the troubles had only started. First of all, there were big problems of security. And it is obviously impossible to make a free-swinging, forceful picture if every foot of it has to satisfy the official and personal tastes of numerous politicians, brasshats and scientists. Casting was difficult, too. Eleanor Roosevelt was uneasy about any actor's portraying her late husband.* In the first version, it developed that Actor...