Word: normane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ORCHID HUNTERS-Norman MacDonald-Farrar & Rinehart...
Cattleyas. The furtive human shadows who strip rare cattleyas from South American jungles and ship them to stock the hothouses of U. S. orchid growers sometimes gross $25,000 on a shipment. More often they die of malaria or snakebite. To 28-year-old Norman MacDonald & Frank McKay of suburban Nutley, N. J., such odds seemed better than their humdrum jobs (a broker's office, a radio-tube factory). Resolved to hunt orchids themselves, they somehow persuaded U. S. orchid growers to stake them to orders for 6,400 cattleyas from Colombia and Venezuela. When, one Christmas...
...Fall of the City, goes on the air September 28. Other good bets: an adaptation of Stephen Vincent Benét's John Brown's Body (July 20), and a bombing fantasy, They Fly Through the Air with the Greatest of Ease (September 7), both by Norman Corwin...
Very definitely would I like to second Norman VV. Geare's plea for Monday holidays [TIME, June 26]. I will accept Mr. Geare's arguments to the industrialist, for in them I am only secondarily interested. I speak for the average man, many of whom, I know will agree with me when I say that more often than not midweek holidays are a nuisance rather than a help. There is little one can do with one day to get a rest other than to go to bed for the day. With a three-day weekend all sorts...
...Director Kanin and Screenwriter Norman Krasna in collaboration produced an excellent script, but Krasna got so jittery in the process that he says he "began looking longingly at a river I know...