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Theodore Anthony White was, like most of the book's other characters, supposed to have a living prototype. He is a drunken lustful newshawk, with good intentions and a kind hearted mistress (Gladys George). In the course of his Hollywood career, Whitey becomes successively a press agent, a cinema director, a "professor" in a sporting house, a studio executive. His erratic success story, outlined against the demented pageant of Hollywood business and social idiocies, ends when a director is murdered by the girl Whitey idolizes and Whitey's mistress is rewarded with possibilities of matrimony for saving...
...Happened One Night (Columbia) contains the material of many a recent picture: the brash, whiskey-drinking newshawk (Clark Gable); the girl (Claudette Colbert) whose father thinks she has been kidnapped; the Florida-New York bus on which they are riding North together-the girl to join her recently-acquired socialite husband of whom her father disapproves, the reporter to get the story of her escapade...
...Last week a Chicago Tribune newshawk called up one of the six Michael J. O'Briens listed in Chicago telephone directories. What did Mr. O'Brien think of the Exchange Bill? 'I'm heartily in favor of it," rumbled Mr. O'Brien. "I do not view the margin requirements as excessive. . . . I believe the stock business is in need of much reform. . . . I wish to see wild speculation barred forever." The Tribune duly recorded these views along with objections by other Chicagoans. The Chicago Evening American headlined: HEAD OF STOCK EXCHANGE FOR FEDERAL CURB...
...What would have been your solution?" asked a newshawk last week...
...Ambassador William C. Bullitt made his first official visit to the U. S. S. R. last December, Duranty was at his elbow. If any one man could be said to have reconciled Capitalist U. S. and Communist Russia, Duranty is the man. Critics have accused him of being no newshawk but a dove of peace who from long association with Soviet eagles has become their carrier pigeon. But unbiased readers of Duranty Reports Russia will agree that on the whole Duranty has done a difficult job objectively and well. From the twelve-year files of his dispatches to the Times...