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The best up-&-coming girl with a style all her own is doe-voiced Evelyn Knight, who has a pull in Manhattan's plushiest nightclubs second only to Hildegarde. She made a hit by singing with soft assurance such old-fashioned tunes as Grandfather's Clock and a...
During the war, when fishermen were scarce, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service went on stocking lakes and streams with its usual 7,000,000,000 fish and fish eggs a year. State hatcheries fed them on horse meat and liver (rainbow trout got an extra pinch of paprika for...
As a Congressman he represents Manhattan's lone Republican stronghold, the 17th ("Silk Stocking") District. But his earnest Republicanism is as individual as his taste in cravats. Says he: "I could not . . . enjoy a damned good dinner and wine unless I were doing all in my power to get...
The Silk Stocking Congressman then threw some hardheaded political arguments at his critics. "You can't be elected by reactionaries in my district. There are only 29,000 Republicans. ... I was elected by 77,000 votes, which means that about 50,000 independents voted for me. For years you...
John Garfield is so familiar in the toughman role that his mere presence threatens the audience's capacity for belief. Lana Turner is a very highly charged and appealing girl, but too much in this role is far beyond her experience, her understanding, even her sincerely overworked imagination; her...