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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...result of an overmastering passion for detail and a policy of shooting everything in sight. Of the 205,000 feet of film exposed for Union Pacific, DeMille and his cutter, Anne Bauchens, threw away all but 12,158. On the set DeMille manipulates his mobs through a special public-address system. When unit directors go to remote locations, he stays in Hollywood, keeps in constant touch by telephone and through emissaries described (by Manhattan's elegant railroad amateur Lucius Beebe, a technical adviser on Union Pacific) as "the king's messengers." Traditionally the best actor and dramatic writer...
About the same date ex-Plunger Joseph Patrick Kennedy, on vacation from the U. S. Embassy in London, reached home. Whatever he thought privately about economic conditions, he said in his public capacity that only a war would put the market (and therefore business) down to where it was in the grim spring...
...wind might blow him down. His face is thin and fine, its profile especially delicate. He wears his greying, thinning hair brushed back without a part. Joyce reads and writes sprawling in bed or on a couch but he does not like it known. He is very formal in public, in restaurants prefers straight-back chairs in which he sits bolt upright...
...petition urging Mayor Lyons to sign the bill, It will prove to him that, despite his statements to the contrary, the people of Cambridge really do want the new housing project. In itself, the petition is a good thing, for it is a time-tried method of expressing public opinion. It will crystallize for both Mayor Lyons' and the public's benefit the fact that there is no opposition to the housing bill other than that coming from Mayor Lyons himself...
Just a year after cornerstone ceremonies dedication exercises for the new Littauer Center of Public Administration will be held this morning at 11:30 o'clock in the auditorium of the new building...