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This is a rather unusual situation for Arch Oboler, who is so anxious to hold his franchise as a prodigy that he admits only "roughly" to 31. Ever since he graduated from pulp writing to horror scripts five years ago, he has sedulously and successfully cultivated the notion that his out-rourings represent art of a very high order. A great wind-sawer at rehearsals, Director Oboler has worked with such lights as Nazimova, Bette Davis, considers himself a sort of Radio Reinhardt. Betimes he has ghostwritten a biography of the late Tex Rickard, recently adapted Escape for the screen...
...last week there was new evidence that Dr. McClure had not been far off base. An investigator of the Duncan, B. C. Chamber of Commerce declared ships were putting out for Japan regularly, carrying pulp logs, which can be made into nitrocellulose (basis of explosives) just as easily as into rayon...
...Wood pulp...
Furthermore, the South had already be gun to industrialize before defense came along. From 1935 to 1937, while the number of manufacturing establishments in other States was declining, the South's total increased slightly. (Among the newcomers: kraft pulp & paper, soap, building materials, chemicals). The South already obtains 260% more wealth from its factories than from its farms. Even if defense does not complete the industrialization of the South overnight, no one could doubt that it would give a push in the right direction-the direction in which the South was already going...
...unlikely thing his gentle grandmother might do. Born and raised in Manhattan, as a boy he sang at the Church of the Epiphany, went to Stuyvesant High School, taught at the Bethel Mennonite College in North Newton, Kans. He has acted on the road and in Chicago, has written pulp stories, vaudeville sketches, two Broadway flops. His press agent Richard Maney swears that Mr. Kesselring has recently lived on "herbs, wild berries and pemmican...