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...Arabic word Ramadan means literally, "The Scorcher...
...Post's formula for revelation has become pat: a continuous series of wordy but provocative sketches of favorite Post whipping boys, e.g., Senator McCarthy, Walter Winchell, Westbrook Pegler. When U.S.A. Confidential began making headlines and the bestseller lists, Wechsler spotted ideal subjects for his next serial scorcher: the book's authors, the New York Mirror's editor, Jack Lait, and its nightclub columnist, Lee Mortimer, who are already defendants in twelve libel suits for their offhand reporting (TIME...
...Scorcher. In St. Louis, Clarence Brown Jr. was hospitalized and treated for burns after being hit by a line drive in a sand-lot baseball game. The batter had scored a bulls-eye on a pocketful of stick matches...
...American life, is encouraged by a plot which has a flavoring of The Green Pastures fantasy, but little real resemblance to that subtle and tender masterpiece. The story takes Little Joe Jackson ("Rochester") and his wife Petunia (Ethel Waters) through Joe's moral predicaments, including a nightclub scorcher named Georgia Brown (Lena Horne), on his way to a needle's-eye squeeze into heaven. M.G.M. adds insult to insensitivity by issuing a pretentious screen-print foreword of legend sources and race dreams: "The folklore of America has origins in ... all races, all colors. This story . . . seeks to capture...
...envious U.S. correspondents in the Middle East are convinced that Britain's Mediterranean sea battles are run on the personal schedule of A.P.'s Laurence Edmund ("Larry") Allen. With half a dozen scoops in his pocket, he brought forth a scorcher last week. When the British released news of the Galatea's loss, they released Allen's full version of the sinking. The original Allen story (TIME, Dec. 29) had told of a grueling seven-hour plane-ship duel. Last week's story began where the other left...