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...Only Sprocket Holes. Stevens made Shane, too. deliberately including every major cliche of the oater: cattlemen v. sodbusters, gunfighters out of nowhere, a funeral, a Fourth of July party. Stevens found under each cliche its root truth as a primal element of life on the range, turning what could have been a routine buttermilker into one of the greatest westerns ever told...
Core of the Standard brand of salesmanship is service, backed by a research budget of $2,000,000 a year and a staff of 142 engineers. Though the basic principle of the sprocket aligner is unchanged, Standard regularly redesigns its accessories to suit new and speedier business machines. Five of the company's engineers are on constant tour helping salesmen to work out customers' problems. If none of the 50,000 sample forms in Standard's files suit a customer's needs, the company's staff of 36 designers will create...
...almost playlets. Using the telephone as a trademark prop, Shelley Berman prefers to find his material in the living room rather than the newspaper. Now a father talking to his daughter before her first date, he tells her that a car is a motel room on wheels; now Dr. Sprocket, child psychologist, he tells a patient's mother: "I know your little boy. His name is Oedipus." (While Sahl's four published recordings have sold only 125,000 copies, the closer-to-the-fingertips comedy of Shelley Berman has sold nearly 1,000,000 copies in three releases...
...ZANUCK ADMIRER, I'M NOT BLIND TO THE POSSIBILITY THAT CELLULOID FINDING ITSELF IN ACTUAL CONTACT WITH ZANUCK'S BROW MIGHT SPONTANEOUSLY DEVELOP AN EXTRA SPROCKET HOLE...
...leggy, blond comic-strip character named Jane. Each day in the London Daily Mirror, Artist W. Norman Pett found some way of making Jane lose all, or almost all her clothes (TIME, Oct. 18, 1943). He was pretty inventive about it: Jane would catch her skirt in a bicycle sprocket, in revolving machinery, in a plane fall (see cut) or a pratfall...