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...subscribers the sixth and final installment of the longest "profile" (thumbnail biography) it ever ran. The subject: gun-toting, fox-faced Walter Winchell, No. 1 U. S. transom-peeper. The author: St. Clair McKelway, free-lance newshawk and onetime managing editor of The New Yorker. So sharp was Mc-Kelway's scalpel that Winchell, who had expected a pat on the head, did not realize until the operation was well begun that his throat was being slit. This week the operation appeared in book form for as many of Winchell's some 10,000,000 column readers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Columny | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

Director Hitchcock, who claims to dislike actors and probably does, ordered several retakes of the wreck of the Clipper because it pleased him to see Actors Mc Crea and Sanders floundering in the water. When McCrea protested that the scene had ruined one of his suits, Hitchcock sent him one the next day, made for a ten-year-old. As surprising a Hitchcock Trilby as was Joan Fontaine in Rebecca is Laraine Day (nee Johnson), a 19-year-old Mormon whose father was the first mayor of Roosevelt, Utah. In the excitement of making Foreign Correspondent, Hitchcock forgot his invariable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 2, 1940 | 9/2/1940 | See Source »

Married. Carol Montgomery Stone, 23, actress daughter of venerable Playactor Fred Stone; and Robert William Mc-Cahon, 26; in Forest Hills, Long Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 12, 1940 | 8/12/1940 | See Source »

Last week it all came clear to Captain Joe. And the person who made it clear was his elegant, conventional, unsocial cousin, Publisher Robert Rutherford Mc-Cormick of the Chicago Tribune. Cousins Bertie and Joe have seldom agreed on editorial policy. In the last two elections, the News boomed Roosevelt, the Tribune booed him; later the News talked up the New Deal, the Tribune screamed it down. When the Tribune editorialized in favor of appeasing Japan last fortnight, no one dreamed the News would agree. But Colonel Bertie's title caught Captain Joe's eye: HOW TO DOUBLE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Appeasement | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

First Novel. Slightest of the three was The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, the talented first novel of 22-year-old Carson Mc-Cullers, Georgia girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Messiahs | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

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