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Director William Wellman, now with MGM, grimly recalls a hunting trip with Zanuck in British Columbia: "You had to shake the porcupines out of the trees at night. It snowed. We had to break trail for the horses. We were snowbound for three days. Zanuck chased a grizzly for 30 hours, came back with a sprained ankle. We made 20 separate fords. We lost the horse carrying our medicine. I got blood poisoning. It was the ruggedest, damndest trip you've ever seen. But d'you know what? Zanuck loved...
...Portland, Ore., 1,000 theatergoers waited until 12:30 a.m. for the curtain to go up on Inside U.S.A., starring Beatrice Lillie, after the theatrical company, aboard a train from Los Angeles, was snowbound in the Cascade Mountains. The weary, determined players performed for the weary, determined audience until the final curtain rang down...
...Republican National Committee marched into snowbound Omaha last week, bitter, bewildered and quarrelsome. They had come to find some constructive answers to the lessons of five consecutive presidential defeats. Instead, they plunged "angrily into a vicious, bare-knuckle denunciation of Candidate Tom Dewey and his hand-picked national chairman, Congressman Hugh Scott Jr., of Philadelphia...
Last week, tall, ruddy Clarinetist Reginald Kell, recognized as one of the world's best, let Manhattan judge his respectability in person for the first time. Snowbound in the suburbs, he stomped in the stage door just ten minutes before he was scheduled to start Brahms's B Minor Quintet with the Busch Quartet. But listeners, when they could hear his clarinet over the Busch's whirring blizzard of sound, found nothing snowbound about his playing. Instead, in the slow movement, which he had more, to himself, they heard the kind of soft, singing tone and delicate...
...start Mayor La Guardia gathered together 250 leading citizens as a reception committee. Down the harbor boats were beflagged and the sirens made their music. Overhead Ruth Nichols . . . roared in her plane scattering roses . . . Along Lower Broadway . . . [the street] was snowbound with ticker tape ... At the City Hall the proceedings were broadcast, and the vibrant voice of the new General, pleading and purposeful, claimed...