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...green hunting prints and a volume of Burke's Landed Gentry. Like many a Big Business headquarters, it looks like the hideout of a country squire. This is the home of The Aviation Corp., once as fabulous a flyer in the realm of high finance as the Great Roc itself...
There, this week, amid the old leather and the bright brass, the biggest deal in aviation history was being completed; out of that roc's-egg deal would hatch the biggest aviation company in the world. Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp., controlled by Aviation Corp. (AVCO), was being merged with Lockheed Aircraft Corp...
Wicked Lady, a 1945 picture starring Margaret Lockwood, James Mason and Patricia Roc, was a big moneymaker in England. But the U.S. will have to wait to see it. Low-cut Restoration costumes worn by the Misses Lockwood and Roc (see cut) display too much "cleavage" (Johnston Office trade term for the shadowed depression dividing an actress' bosom into two distinct sections). The British, who have always considered bare legs more sexy than half-bare breasts, are resentfully reshooting several costly scenes...
...days!-life was chock-full of excitement: barroom brawling, gunplay, gold prospecting, gambling, whizzing tommyhawks and flaming arrows, sudden romance and sudden death. Canyon Passage has all this and more-plus better-than-average dialogue and competent players (Dana Andrews, Susan Hayward, Brian Donlevy, Britain's Patricia Roc). Gnome-faced Hoagy Carmichael wanders lazily through the busy plot, picking his mandolin and singing four catchy, near-frontier ballads that he composed for the occasion. Technicolor works pure magic with the ires, the fist fights, trie Redmen, the pretty girls, the superb outdoor scenery...
...Roc and the GB-4, bombs with built-in television transmitter and radio control. They can be steered by the directing plane from a television image which shows the target and a spot indicating the bomb's position...