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...Columbia) is set in that never-never newspaper office usually imagined by the movies. The highly colorful personalities include a suave editor (George Sanders) who is infatuated with demon Girl Reporter Marta Toren. She, in turn, is in love with intrepid Newsman Dana Andrews, who is described as "a one-man newspaper." For good measure, there is also a stylish fashion editor (Audrey Totter) who is an old flame of Sanders', now making eyes at Andrews...
...York Philharmonic-Symphony's percussion section, got a rare chance to do both last week in Manhattan. At the orchestra's first children's concert of the season, he surrounded himself with a dozen instruments of his profession and engaged them in a one-man battle against time in a piece called The Worried Drummer...
...Crimson win was another one-man show--this time by quarterback Barry Wood. 1932 saw the longest run of the H.D series, as Carl Pescosolido returned a kick-off 93 yards to edge the Big Green...
Through it all, Berthe never got around to holding a solo show of her own paintings. But in 1892, after her husband died, Berthe left Paris for a few months to paint, then returned for her first one-man show. Paris critics nodded approval, but few people cheered a woman painter in those days. She never gave them another chance. Two years later, at the age of 54, Berthe Morisot sickened and died; her will named Auguste Renoir guardian of her 16-year-old daughter Julie...
...successful adman nowadays must "get into the field"-even if it is only on a "one-man survey"-to "check the trade" and get an "on-the-ground approach" to the "big picture." That means, of course, both "sales-wise" and "production-wise." Then, having gotten a "fillin" (which is known in advertising circles as letting an outside dope in on the inside dope), he will be all set to "finalize his thinking" and "explode the market...