Word: misses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dorothy Sayers (both mystery alumni) -and Mason's was qualified. He had long ago decided, said he, that authors had "used just about every known device in mystery stories"; yet innocent new generations of readers were always coming up. "In common with the novel," generalized all-out Miss Sayers, "the detective story is likely to decline in the future. . . . I don't read fiction any more...
...character jump out of his shoes. Into Terry and the wartime Male Call (for the G.I. press) Caniff poured fast-breaking dialogue, credible adventure - and one touch of Venus. He knocked himself out to make his brain children (he has no others) seem real. His Dragon Lady, Burma and Miss Lace were fashioned after lush, living models. (Steve Canyon's mean and sexy villainess, Copper Calhoon, was drawn from a model, Carol Ohmart, "Miss Utah...
...pretty blonde wife, Esther-he calls her Bunny-brings the coffee, gets the meals and keeps guests from gumming up the production line. Slim, slack-clad Bunny Caniff doesn't have much to say when her talkative husband has visitors. Says she: "I'm afraid people will miss something Milt is saying...
...year-old Arnold Eidus of The Bronx. Eidus won the Thibaud International Competition for violinists last month. Says Thibaud proudly: "There were in this competition five Frenchmen, six Hungarians, three Hollanders-and one American. The American win. Such chic, such champagne in the tone. And technique! He never miss a note. It made me nervous. . . . You Americans, you don't know what talents you have...
...with clean competence-a mite too clean -by handsome Gregory Peck, 6ft. 3 in. Glum, discouraged Ma Baxter is impersonated with affecting skill by Jane Wyman, whose talents have been wasted for years by Warner Bros, in pert ingénue roles. But even in scrubbed, unlipsticked make-up Miss Wyman's trim face & figure are a glamorized caricature of the novel's bulky Ma Baxter...