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...SmallTown Girl." Except when it is the most effective way to get things done, Anna Rosenberg is never coy. Dynamic small (5 ft. 3 in., 115 lb.), dark and 43, she has always stayed away from Washington jobs - except at the weekly visit-to-the-President level. She is reluctant to go to Washington because: 1) "I work best in the field. . . . I'm just a small-town girl"; 2) "I still think the war is nowhere near over"; 3) her husband Julius, a well-known rug dealer, and all her roots are firmly embedded in Manhattan concrete...
American Document. The Gay Illiterate is as much an American document as The Education of Henry Adams. It is the self-recorded sound track of a smalltown, intensely feminine mind which for 30 years, with unabated enthusiasm and energy, has been hanging over Hollywood's back fence, talking like a ruptured water main to hundreds of thousands of other smalltown, intensely feminine minds. Most of the talk is a nonstop, hypnotic colloquy, starched with babbling anecdote. But the book includes little about Lolly Parsons as good as the things it leaves...
...homemaker's point of view; into OPA policymaking, Maxon chose as his assistant an American housewife, Mrs. Philip L. Crowlie of Huron, S.D., a smalltown clubwoman, mother of three...
Cairo (M.G.M.) is an ingenious spy picture which engages in a lot of good-natured spoofing of the standard Hollywood thriller. Robert Young (sent to cover the war in Africa because he is a typical "smalltown reporter"), Reginald Owen (a Nazi Intelligence officer posing as a British Intelligence officer), Edward Ciannelli (an Oriental mastermind) and Jeanette MacDonald engage in a game of deliberately slapstick I Spy. Climax comes when the sympathetic vibrations of Singer MacDonald's high C tickle open a secret door into a pyramid, foil a Nazi plot to bomb a U.S. transport by remote control...
Born in the small town of Rhaunen, near Germany's Ruhr Basin, Kahn arrived in the U.S. as a gangling boy of twelve. Son of an impoverished smalltown Rabbi who peddled fruit for a living on Detroit's streets, young Albert seemed destined to be an infant prodigy musician. But the vicissitudes of fruit peddling made it necessary for young Albert to enter the offices of a Detroit architect as office boy. He was fired from the job because he smelled too strongly of his father's horse, whom he dutifully curried every...