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Until two years ago, the Lehigh Art Alliance was a small group of amateurs and semi-professionals who periodically exhibited their work and attracted almost no attention. Then Alliance President Quentin Smith Jr. suggested that the members concentrate on a mass portrait of some regional industry. That year they settled on the Pennsylvania Power & Light Co. Their single-theme show, "Portrait of Power," was a hit with the community, and Penn Power bought up 25 canvases for a permanent exhibition. Last year, the alliance chose the Call-Chronicle newspapers of Allentown as their group subject, called the results "Portrait...
...papa recounting the feats of his offspring, the Communist organ L'Humanité* ticked off the high spots of 20 days of anti-American activity in France. Item: at Revel, in Haute-Garonne, "300 peasants tore up surveyors' markers at a new military airbase." Item: at Saint-Quentin, "youth made a fire of joy out of the tracts and brochures of the [American] occupation." Item: at Toulouse, "street parades against the arrival of munitions . . . from across the Atlantic...
Ruppel, 48, an ex-Hearstling who came up in the rough & rowdy Chicago press, chopped off so many heads after he got to Collier's that some staffers began to quit even before they spotted the gleam of his ax. Even such contributors as Quentin Reynolds, Collie Small and Frank Ger-vasi made for the door. Editor Ruppel, one ex-Collier's staffer explained, had never before dealt with magazine writers, accustomed to writing pretty much as they pleased, and he often treated them just as if "he hated writers." But in the upper reaches of Crowell-Collier...
...picture is a fairly lively but less legitimate account of these not-so-legitimate characters. The prison backgrounds were realistically filmed at San Quentin, but the six convicts are now jailbirds of a more flamboyant feather. Among their activities, which have been broadly colored up for movie purposes: smuggling the wife of a fellow convict into prison in a crate marked "Highly Inflammable"; saving Psychologist Wilson (John Beal) from being used by a psychopathic killer as a jailbreak shield. To these extravagant exploits the picture adds others even more farfetched: the convicts operating a bookie joint called the Psychosomatic Bookkeeping...
...fall into no common types. Alongside the hardened multiple-offenders there are the nondescript little men -- seldom closely examined in prison movies -- who have cheated on their income tax or juggled the books; consequently, although it remains doubtful what significance Wilson's "California Test" had, his stay at San Quentin is material enough for a unique motion picture...