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...streetcar; "Comrade, you say he returns...
McGraw, disgusted that his partners "couldn't see over a pile of manure," split with them and took the streetcar magazine with him. Later, he met John Hill, onetime locomotive engineer who owned five trade papers (American Machinist, Power, Engineering News, Coal Age, Engineering and Mining Journal). Both McGraw and Hill had also started publishing books; in 1909 they formed a joint book-publishing firm. Eight years later, after Hill died, his estate sold out his magazines and book interests to McGraw...
...Theatre tomorrow, it will-if running to form--abandon scientific selection and vote along non-artistic lines. Two years ago, to skirt a decision between All About Eve and Sunset Boulevard, the Academy chose Born Yesterday. And last year An American in Paris became the darkhorse victor over A Streetcar Named Desire, A Place in the Sun, and Death of a Salesman. Gene Kelly's technicolor crepe suzette was a fine musical comedy--it was also inferior to the other three. Also last year unpopular Marlon Brando lost out to Humphrey Bogart as a matter of sentiment rather than performance...
...Chicago, frugal Anna Cox, 74, a street-corner peddler of notions, disclosed that her address for the past seven years has been the Chicago Transit Authority. When room rents went up, Anna Cox took to the streetcars at night. "A trolley's got a rooming house beat a mile for comfort," she said, "and it's a sight cheaper." She kept a change of clothes in a warehouse, freshened up in public toilets, lived on vegetables and fruit, always paid her full fare ($7.14 a week). "I don't sleep as well in a bed," she explained...
...office bust that followed such films as death of a salesman and Streetcar Named desire in "51 was a delight to the quo Vadis school of cinema which holds that art is not entertainment, and to add to the Oscar committee's woes, several studies have withdrawn their financial support from the Awards...