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Cineproducer Pare Lorentz (The River, The Plow That Broke the Plains) sued RKO for $1,619,147 damages for slander and breach of contract. RKO stopped production last July on his Name, Age and Occupation (25-year odyssey of a "composite American...
...mountain snowplow. U.P. General Manager William Martin Jeffers was telling the men he knew the job was dangerous but it had to be done. Not one to give an order he could not fill, Jeffers climbed into the cab. Drwn the winding right of way the engine and plow battled foot by foot. Every curve meant the danger of an avalanche. Every few minutes the motors stalled; everybody had to get out to shovel. A snow boulder stove in the cabside. The engineer was knocked out. Bill Jeffers jumped to his place, grabbed the throttle, finally got the plow into...
...Southern gentleman" who "worked in the fields all his life along with the rest of the hands. On weekdays except Saturdays he wore linsey-woolsey breeches and a loose blue shirt, open at the neck, and from sunrise to sundown, except for the hour of his nap, he would plow and hoe cotton, pull fodder, thin corn. . . . On Saturdays, the year round, he would put on a white shirt with a black shoestring tie and a black frock coat and black trousers and would drive in to the Courthouse in the carriage to attend to public affairs." He "regarded office...
...Lordship and the lovely Virginia Lucie fell in love. "I know how to milk a cow and to plow the fields and I love every bit of it," Virginia Lucie said. His Lordship was pleased. He, too, had the country heart and he dreamed of how Virginia Lucie's dark hair would shine in the candlelight at the dinner hour and how her slim legs would twinkle across the great oak floors and her laughter would drive away the shadows in the stormy nights of winter...
...precious time won from the Jap in the victory of the Coral Sea was running out. Soon he would strike again, and this time he might plow through to New Caledonia or to Australia's sparsely held coasts...