Word: paged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sports,* published last week by Cleveland-born, 53-year-old Frank G. Menke. longtime Hearst sportswriter. To investigate the present and past of the world's pastimes, Sportswriter Menke devoted 20 years, poked his nose into 2,000 books, spent $8,000. The result is a 320-page history of recreation (covering almost 100 sports from roller polo to aviation), small enough to be carried in a tipster's hip pocket, informative enough to make a sports columnist out of a convent girl...
Made for Each Other (United Artists-David Selznick) starts with a printed announcement on the screen: "Greater New York has a population of 7,434,346, among the least important of whom is. . . ." The camera cuts to a page of the Manhattan Telephone Directory and telescopes down on the name of "John Mason, lawyer." The opening action shot then shows Mason (James Stewart) pausing on his way to work to examine something he is carrying-a cabinet-size photograph of his wife (Carole Lombard...
Creator of these bookish detectives is tall, goggled Scenarist Harry Kurnitz, longtime mystery writer for pulp magazines, who writes under the false-whiskery pen name of Marco Page and the influence of Dashiell Hammett. His characters first appeared last spring in a spade-calling mystery novel, Fast Company, in which the main victim was poetically conked with a bust of Dante. Last summer Melvyn Douglas and Florence Rice played them first for cinema in MGM's fumigated version. In Fast and Loose, Robert Montgomery and Rosalind Russell show up as the likeliest pretenders to the places of William Powell...
...News's 3,000,000 readers have been profoundly apathetic to these revelations, even when Publisher Patterson gave them front page headlines on rat news at the height of the German pogroms. Reaction of scientists has ranged from cool to openly hostile. When Publisher Patterson tried to talk about his big story to a pretty nurse in his doctor's office she exclaimed: "Oh, rats-we tried that at Johns Hopkins . . . and it can't be done...
...TREE OF LIBERTY-Elizabeth Page -Farrar & Rinehart...