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Died. Truman Hughes Talley, 50, newsreel and documentary film producer; executive vice president of Movietonews, Inc.; in Manhattan. His outstanding documentary was The First World War, inspired by Laurence Stallings' picture book...
...paunchy figure of John Llewellyn Lewis straddled the nation last week, striding shadowily across innumerable newsreel screens, moving like a ponderous nightmare...
...assassination of Alexander led Novelist West: 1) to think back to other political murders she remembered from her youth; 2) to go to a private projection where she had the newsreel of the murder of Alexander run over & over again; 3) to make a trip to Yugoslavia; 4) to write Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, an omnibus record of her journey-part travelogue, part history, part philosophical and political asides-one of the most passionate, eloquent, violent, beautifully written books of our time...
Alexander Obrenovitch was succeeded on the throne by the father of Alexander II, at whose murder in the newsreel Author West peered "like an old woman reading the tea-leaves in her cup. ... I could not understand this event, no matter how often I saw this picture. I knew, of course, how and why the murder had happened...
...Woodworth visit brought nothing but trouble to Harvard and to the Lampoon. It wasn't her fault. She did what she was told. Kambers dragged her everywhere, condescending to allow her to attend the dance for all of fifteen minutes, just time for the newsreel cameras, undoubtedly run by her home studio, to whirr. As a crowning disgrace. Kambers and the Boston newshounds got her to pause for a luscious bit of cheesecake in the lap of the John Harvard statue. When Marjorie departed from Boston the morning after, the Lampoon knew it was through with Hollywood. The visit hurt...