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...duty as a photographer in Korea, and was back in New York last winter when the news came in that the 1st Marine Division was cut off near the Changjin Reservoir. Duncan's point in pleading to go back to the Marines: no enemy outfit anywhere could smash a Marine division, and so the assignment was perfectly safe. He flew in to join the Marines, and was the only newsman to walk out with them in their bitter, fighting withdrawal...
...gave the visitors a 13-0 win in a driving rain. Hopelessly cheering until the last play, the man of '26 lighted up a Melachrino, took another nip at his pocket flask, snuggled a little deeper into his raccoon coat, and brought his date into Boston to see the smash hit of the day, Mr. John Galsworthy's "Loyalties...
...Warners scored such a box-office smash that they were able to make a film of their own in 1912, a three-reeler titled Perils of the Plains. "Just like The Covered Wagon," says Harry, "except we used three wagons and they used 300." By making $3 do the work of $300, the brothers gradually expanded moviemaking, struck it rich with such stars as John Barrymore (The Sea Beast, Beau Brummel...
...sliced salaries in half, cut all other expenses just as deeply. Said Harry: "A picture is just an expensive dream. It's just as easy to dream for $700,000 as for $1,500,000." Production Boss Jack Warner picked topical stories out of the headlines, produced such smash hits as Public Enemy and Little Caesar. He tackled many ticklish social issues which other studios avoided, such as bad penal systems (I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang), lynching (They Won't Forget), labor conditions (Black Fury). With Disraeli, the Warners started a cycle of film biographies...
...missed overhead on match point cost the freshman tennis team an easy victory in a rained-out match at Williams yesterday. The Yardlings were leading 4-0 and needed one more match to clinch the win, when number five man John Carollo knocked the smash out after leading...