Word: mullens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Grocer J. Frank Grimes wanted a homey magazine that his customers could tuck into their shopping bags. Editor John W. Mullen wanted a mass audience for his Family Life movement, which fights delinquency and divorce. Young (31) Marshall Field IV wanted to try his wings as a publishing angel. Last week the three of them got together as sponsors of American Family, a 5? monthly to be launched in the fall with a starting circulation...
Hardest hit by a recent rash of parties (on the week ends, naturally) have been our married brethren, whose role of gentlemen in waiting, for you wife to escape such well-known Ali Babas as Joe Neil, "Terrible Tom" Mullen, and smooth-talking J. F. Stonewall Smith...
...Ferdon Neil is said to have has Tom "Moon" Mullen say, "I may always be right, but I'm never wrong Guess Tom knows what he's saying he must realize that he is encroaching on Max Richard's and "Mother" Renin territory by such a declaration...
...Barbara Mullen), a heartbroken feminist, fled from the contemptuous jails of England. One (Frederick Cooper), a consumptive workman, fled from the inhumanities of a Victorian factory. One (Frederick Valk), a Viennese physician who prediscovered anesthesia, fled from the bigotries of the clergy and of his own profession. All, as the moved journalist hears them out, rebuke themselves and him for despair against whatever odds. The despairing promethean, they assure him, takes nothing of value to his living grave; others-a Darwin, a Pasteur, a Marx, a Nightingale-persist and by slow stages liberate the reluctant world. By morning and story...
...reminiscent of Eugene O'Neill at his worst. But it also has some of the most stinging and salutary talk about prewar blindness, postwar prospects and their causes which has ever reached the timid screen. Its edged, cultivated production and its heartfelt acting-particularly that of brilliant Barbara Mullen-also help to turn the struggle of the protagonists into drama a fraction as searching and noble as the author intended...