Word: miriam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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MAYHEM IN B-FiAT-Elliot Paul-Random House ($2). Moritz the miraculous Boxer (a dog) makes his debut with the familiar cast of Homer Evans, detective, dead-eye Miriam, Inspector Fremont and his dusky Hydrangea, Hjalmar Jansen the crockery smasher, the Singe, Godo the Whack, et al., roister-doistering from Paris to Rouen and back by water, land and haystack. Funniest murder story yet from veteran Mr. Paul, whose higher-browed books include The Life & Death of a Spanish Town...
...Miriam A. ("Ma") Ferguson, twice Governor of Texas (1925-27, 1933-35), now at 65 a fond grandmother. Ma Ferguson left the management of her campaign to her husband, 69-year-old Jim Ferguson, Governor of Texas from 1915 until he was impeached...
...Reno converged some 20,000 cinemaddicts in all stages of esthetic and convivial excitement. They came by car, bus, train, plane. Present were the Governors of five States, 50 movie stars, including Errol Flynn, Miriam Hopkins, Randolph Scott, Humphrey Bogart, Priscilla Lane, Tom Mix, Mary Astor, May Robson, Wayne Morris, Ralph Bellamy. Three special trains transported newshawks from Manhattan, Chicago, Los Angeles...
Items: "We are thrilled silly about the fact that Errol Flynn, Miriam Hopkins and Randolph Scott are really going to set foot in Reno [cinema premiere at Virginia City]." ... On the American Youth Congress: "Is the A. Y. C. innocent or guilty [of Communism]? Is the cutting criticism of the papers, columnists and President warranted, or is it a lopsided 'Martin Dies expose'? . . . Was not the A. Y. C. attacked without reason...
Soon it looked as if Producer Jed Harris had won. Then things began to happen. Harris and Hemingway couldn't agree on revisions, and Harris checked out. Austin Parker (a former husband of Miriam Hopkins) took a $1,000 option on the play, died a few days later. From then on The Fifth Column was batted around the market; finally Hemingway threw the script on the shelf...