Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...research libraries-thus far chiefly for filing newspapers. Photographed on 35-mm. film, ten complete issues of the New York Times (averaging 800 pages) can be recorded on a single 100-ft. reel. Placed in a reading machine operated by hand crank, the film is projected on a screen, enlarged to 18 in. by 18 in. Heads of university presses, tired of spending $1,000 to $4,000 to publish scholarly books which may never be read by more than a hundred or so other scholars, are talking of publishing more & more whole books on microfilm...
Divorced. By Myrna Loy, 39, "the perfect screen wife": John D. Hertz Jr., 36, Manhattan advertising executive and taxicab heir; after two years; in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Grounds: incompatibility...
...Miss Montez is surrounded by gypsies and feudal barons. However, she still weaves her torso in the same seductive fashion, eyes muscular Jon Hall with the same old sultry yearning. To show his gratitude, Hall swims moats. Most original use of Technicolor: a close-up in which the entire screen is pink with Miss Montez' heaving breast...
...Cross agent, who interviewed the General in Formosa "some time within the last three months," reported through a screen of Japanese censorship that "Skinny" Wainwright and other high-ranking officers were confined in a camp apart from other prisoners, got the same rice-and-fish diet as all prisoners of war. Wainwright's only reported comment was that conditions were "as good as can be reasonably expected...
...girls are June Allyson and Gloria DeHaven, the sailor Van Johnson. Miss Allyson's notable contribution is a torrid rendition of "Young Man With A Horn"; Miss DeHaven is sensational as her own good-enough-to-eat, red-headed self; while Johnson chases the gals across the screen often enough to hold the interest of even the most hardened wolf...