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...editorial policies or its basic format. While it has taken on some Times-Herald features, including a weekly column by Maryland McCormick, the colonel's wife (TIME, March 8), it has already dropped from the new combined paper such features as Columnist Westbrook Pegler and sensational, slapdash Labor Columnist Victor Riesel. Graham expects relatively clear sailing ahead. Said he: "(Buying the TH) was the culmination of Eugene Meyer's effort for the Post for over 20 years...
...Turpin. Says he: "We'd write 'em, shoot 'em and print 'em in a week." Nowadays, most Hollywood directors are apt to shoot one scene scores of times; but a lot of TV programs have happily reversed progress and gone back to the old slapdash days. Today, Beaudine has a budget of $25,000 a film, and it costs $10,000 a day to shoot. Beaudine seldom takes more than 2½ days to get a film...
Under General Manager John Revelstoke Rathom, a firm believer in the old newspaper saying, "Raise hell and sell papers," the papers were sensational, slapdash crusaders. Even before the U.S. got into World War I, Rathom was convinced that German diplomats were spies. He liked to brag that he planted secretaries in the offices of high German diplomats to intercept secret correspondence, and used Secret Service men as reporters. Over and over, other dailies around the U.S. carried Page One stories of German intrigue that began, "Tomorrow the Providence Journal will say ..." But Rathom's enterprise got him in trouble...
...Ashore (Columbia) is an amiable little cinemusical with pretty girls, Technicolored scenery, several jingly songs-and practically no screenplay. The slapdash script follows three sailors (Mickey Rooney, Dick Haymes, Ray McDonald) through their shore leave at Catalina. By the fadeout, at a lavish Polynesian beach party, they have each found a girl (Barbara Bates, Jody Lawrence, Peggy Ryan). This is the sort of picture in which the characters have such names as Moby Dickerson and Gay Knight. All Ashore is at its brightest when it gives sawed-off Mickey Rooney a chance to hoof, sing, do assorted pratfalls...
Readers of Drew Pearson's enterprising but frequently slapdash syndicated column often have trouble separating fact from fancy. Last week Columnist Pearson solved the problem with a handy "grade label" guide, if not for the readers of his column, at least for subscribers to his new ($50 a year) weekly newsletter. Personal from Pearson. The guide: "√A story we have attempted to check without success, or a story which is impossible to check. √√A story we believe to be true but have not been able to authenticate. √√√A . . . story we've been...