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...first time since Edison cranked up his Kinetograph and recorded Fred Ott's Sneeze, the way lies open to a free exploration of the full possibilities of cinema as an art. The possibilities are clearly immense. No other art can so powerfully exploit the dimensions of time and space. No other art has so many ways of involving a human being. It involves his eyes, ears, mind, heart, appetites all at once. It is drama, music, poetry, novel, painting at the same time. It is the whole of art in one art, and it demands the whole...
...Kids Get Hungry." Inevitably, the call-up worked personal hardships. In the town of Stettin (pop. 4,141), Captain Raymond Ott cancelled plans for expanding his milk franchise: "I'll just have to teach my wife Rosemary how to keep the business going until we get back. But this is what we signed up for-to take care of emergencies. It looks like we got an emergency...
...Timing his rhythmic swing perfectly, Ted Williams, 41, of the Boston Red Sox drove the ball over the left-centerfield fence in Cleveland for the sooth home run of his 22-year career, now trails only Babe Ruth (714), Jimmy Foxx (534) and Mel Ott...
Died. Mel Ott, 49, member of baseball's Hall of Fame, longtime (1926-47) slugging outfielder for the New York Giants who also managed the team during his last six seasons, spent recent summers broadcasting Detroit Tiger games; of injuries resulting from an auto crash; in New Orleans. Ott made Manager John McGraw's team when he was 16. Casey Stengel, then manager of the Toledo Mud Hens, asked for the boy, but irascible John McGraw snarled: "Neither you nor any other minor-league manager is going to ruin that kid. He stays with me." Stay...
...escape lungs, reach the surface and float helplessly. A flight of gulls lowers, swoops hungrily at the eyes of a comrade Teichmann is trying to save. Exhausted, finally broken by the war, Teichmann slips into madness. Hours later, rescue boats save 9 of the 20 men. Novelist Ott does not say whether Teichmann is one of them. It does not matter...