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...Ohio State he saw Harold Lloyd in The Freshman, bought a yellow slicker and an open Ford, and was pledged by Sigma Chi, which never got over it. The fraternity has since elected him-like Cartoonist McCutcheon before him-to its select group of "Significant Sigs" (others: Booth Tarkington, Roy Chapman Andrews and George...
Another early hero of Surrealism, Salvador Dali, had been excommunicated for a rankling crime: success. Dali's slick-as-grease craftsmanship and even slicker pressagenting had won him a reputation as a sort of a screwball Benvenuto Cellini in modern dress. Last week a new edition of the real Cellini's famed Autobiography appeared (Doubleday Limited Editions; $10) and it was illustrated by Dali...
...rimmed victim, isn't given much chance to live up to her billing as a lush, dangerous beauty. Zachary Scott, whose best screen performance to date was the simple, down-to-earth Texas farmer in The Southerner, is now being cast by Warner as a no-good city slicker. He makes as much sense as he can of his moronic lines, but the plot machinery jams frequently. Clearly too fast for anyone in the picture, Zachary eventually hastens his own end by tripping over a tree root and pitching over a cliff...
...nearly two years the small (circ. 230,000) city -slicker New Yorker and the mighty, midget-sized Reader's Digest (circ. 11,000,000) have been on the outs. In a frigidly phrased communiqué to his contributors in February 1944, wire-haired Harold W. Ross, terrier-tempered editor of the New Yorker, served notice that his magazine was through being Digested...
Readers Wanted. The new Pic is a slicker two-bit, Esquire-like 120-page monthly aimed directly at the homebound G.I. Its thesis is that soldiers who yearned over pin-up girls in foxholes and wolf-howled in Paris will come home more sober and serious. To win them, Pic plans career pieces ("How G.I.s Can Become Farmers"), designs for living ("First Civvies in Five Years") and sidebar ticklers ("Widows Are Dangerous...