Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mangled bodies of 56 correspondents and twelve photographers who are covering Their Majesties' trip. Besides brooding over such an unlikely fate, the representatives of the Canadian, U. S. and European press have the following causes for complaint: 1) a shortage of bathing facilities (one shower for seven women, another for 107 men); 2) absence of any laundry facilities; 3) the difficulty of getting enough to eat in one dining car; and 4) the fact that when the King arrives in a town that day automatically becomes a legal holiday, thereby occasioning the closing of all liquor stores...
...Towne, 35, is a baldheaded veteran of 15 years in Hollywood, where he got his start thinking up wisecracks for titles in silent pictures. Since he shifted to writing original screenplays, which his friends told him was a "starvation business," he has starved less than any writer in Hollywood. Seven years ago he teamed up with Graham Baker, a long-faced ex-producer who once fired him. The two rented a dingy $15-a-month office formerly tenanted by a masseur, bought a Rolls-Royce from a well-known producer down on his luck, painted TOWNE-BAKER SCRIPT DELIVERY...
...Technicolor; Northwest Passage with Wallace Beery, Spencer Tracy and Robert Taylor; Quo Vadis?; The Women with Norma Shearer and Joan Crawford. M-G-M will also release Producer David O. Selznick's Gone With the Wind. Biggest M-G-M questionmark is fox-faced Hedy Lamarr, who after seven months of grooming at M-G-M was borrowed by Producer Walter Wanger and made an overnight sensation in Algiers. M-G-M has scrapped a Lamarr-Spencer Tracy picture, is now filming a Lamarr-Robert Taylor vehicle, Lady of the Tropics...
...find out how to make better flying machines. Almost as soon as he learned to fly he began manufacturing planes in Santa Ana. He opened a factory in Los Angeles in 1912, from which he sold planes to the U. S. Army, still one of his best customers. For seven years, sobersided Martin, half pilot, half industrialist, whizzed around the country, flying to finance manufacturing...
...midst of 1939's war-scared aircraft manufacturing boom, Glenn Martin remains, as usual, priestlike and detached. To his office he goes every morning, hurling along in a 16-cylinder, seven-passenger Cadillac ("they cruise better when they're big") at speeds that make motorcycle policemen wince. But they make no arrests for Martin is the second largest employer of labor in the Baltimore industrial area. (The largest: Bethlehem Steel...