Word: midwesternisms
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...still colors up when he remembers it: "I had to control myself as hard as I ever did in my life, not to give her a piece of my mind." The round-the-world trip ended in New York, and Webster ended - in time - on that Parnassus of Midwestern newspaper men, the New York World. Webster, along with any number of employes and readers, still remembers the death of Pulitzer's World in 1931 as nothing short of tragic...
...NUMBER CAN PLAY-Edward Harris Heth-Harper ($2.50). This taut tale of what happened one night in big-time Charley King's midwestern gambling house will give ordinary bridge and poker fans a rough notion of the fever that throbs in a sure-enough gambler's veins. Of that momentous night when Charley had his triumph-and his comeuppance-Wisconsin-born Author Heth has made a fast-moving short novel. His slightly lopsided characters look startlingly real in the smoky, harshly lit room where little Bergson sweats over, a two-bit bet and a stranger's trembling...
...House on 92nd Street (20th Century-Fox). When a personable, athletic young German-American named William Dietrich (William Eythe) graduated from a midwestern college in the late '303, he was offered an attractive proposition by the Nazis. How would he like to take a tour through Germany, with all expenses paid and perhaps study in a Hamburg university for a while? When Dietrich reported this offer to the FBI, he was told to accept...
...Lutheran Church planned for a Midwestern town will be adorned with boxlike windows and a "reflection pool" reminiscent of prewar world's fairs...
...opposition (but not planned that way, insisted David Cityans) was a showing of 28 oils by 41-year-old Dale Nichols, art editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, and a nationally known painter of Christmas-cardish Midwestern landscapes and Greyhound bus ads. Nichols' specialties are heart-warming red barns, picturesque blue snowhills, tree branches reaching to cobalt skies...