Word: seaton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most surprised reader of all was Fay N. Seaton, 68, owner and editor of the Mercury-Chronicle, onetime state G.O.P. publicity man and Republican-appointed chairman of the state social welfare board. When the editorial appeared, he was in Topeka for the inauguration of G.O.P. Governor Edward F. Arn. Next day, angry Editor Seaton set his readers right. Wrote he: "The editor of this newspaper regrets that such an editorial as that published Monday . . . should have appeared in its editorial column. It did not represent the view of the editor, but merely that of the writer thereof...
...Heaven's Sake (20th Century-Fox] is a tasteless whimsy unworthy of Scripter-Director George (Miracle on 34th Street) Seaton, who bolted it together out of a deservedly unproduced play by Harry (Here Comes Mr. Jordan) Segall. It concerns two angels (Clifton Webb and Edmund Gwenn) who are sent on an earthly mission to inspire procreation by a selfishly childless theatrical couple (Joan Bennett and Robert Cummings...
According to Seaton-Segall biology, unborn children are little angelic sprites who haunt the premises of their parents-to-be, wistfully awaiting their entrance into a solid world where they can taste ice cream. While Gigi Perreau thus languishes to be conceived, she gives tips to the angels on how to further the project. Angel Webb, a vain, sarcastic know-it-all, then materializes into the couple's life, hatches aphrodisiacal schemes and almost loses his angelic franchise when confronted with temptations of the flesh (Joan Blondell...
...strong, silent westerner patterned after Gary Cooper, and by Jack La Rue's bit as a movie star who fancies himself the living model of the tough, coin-flipping gangster he plays on the screen. They do nothing to repair the picture's ingrained faults. As Director Seaton himself demonstrated in Miracle on 34th Street, the supernatural elements of a fantasy are best played off against the familiar realities of an everyday world. Instead, the coy hocus-pocus of For Heaven's Sake takes place in the never-never land of Hollywood farce...
...Auto Workers' Reuther and Art Johnstone shaking hands with G.M.'s Vice President Harry Anderson and Labor Director Louis Seaton...