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...injury did not affect the section of the brain I use to write with." In Hollywood, Entrepreneur Elliott Roosevelt announced that, after rummaging through some old personal papers and other documents, he and a collaborator had reconstructed an original screenplay missing since 1923, when its author sent it to Paramount studios. It was called I Have Just Begun to Fight, a stirring film biography of Admiral John Paul Jones, a lifelong idol of the scenarist, Franklin D. Roosevelt, who wrote it when Assistant Secretary of the Navy...
Since her first Metro picture (Mogam-bo), Grace has been busier than a flock of starlets at a cocktail party. Warner Bros, borrowed her for Dial M, and Paramount for three more films, which have not yet been released. All are surefire hits, too: Country Girl (with William Holden and Bing Crosby), Rear Window (with James Stewart), Bridges at Toko-Ri (with Holden). She is now working on Green Fire (with Stewart Granger) for MGM; this summer she returns to Paramount for Catch a Thief (with Cary Grant), follows that with The Cobweb...
...addition to Brown, the New York committee consists of Richard C. Aldrich '31, producer; Robert W. Anderson '39, playwright; Robert E. Sherwood '18, playwright; Donald M. Oenslager '23, designer; Curt H. Reisinger '12; Vinton Freedly '14, producer; Leonard H. Goldenson '27, president of Paramount Pictures; Nathaniel Benchley '38; Paul M. Hollister '13; and Donald S. Stralem '24, investment banker...
...young Chinese, has waned severely. Land reform became not a matter of justice, but a brutal stamping out of landlords and recalcitrants, a mass injustice in which all had to participate and to share the complicity. Even inside the party there is loyalty trouble. Item: ". . . It is of paramount necessity," warned Party Dogmatist Liu Shao-chi last February, "that at this crucial stage all comrades . . . must wage unrelenting struggle against those who deliberately undermine party unity, stand up against the party, persist in refusing to correct their errors...
...Naked Jungle (Paramount...