Word: talled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What made these statements more notable than they sounded last week was the fact that they came from the tall, fuzzy-haired Hungarian who in two years has made Great Britain's cinema industry a serious rival to Hollywood. When he arrived in Manhattan on his way to California to discuss his plans for the coming season, ship news reporters on the lie de France dutifully scribbled every word Alexander Korda said because they knew that, as head of London Film Productions, Ltd. he is today Britain's best in the way of a producer...
...company which could not cut its interstate lines was Associated Gas & Electric. Instead last week it simply cut off its tall talk. In a spectacular policy somersault, A. G. & E., which spent nearly $1,000,000 lobbying against the utility bill, denied that it was ready to challenge the law in the courts. "On the contrary," purred A. G. & E., "the Associated yesterday sent out a letter to all executives and department heads of the system stating that the enactment of the legislation and its signature by the President placed it in an entirely different status than formerly, when...
...products ever received more spontaneous publicity. The first Austins were in constant danger of being upset by crowds. Smart businessmen sent them cruising the streets to advertise their wares. Funnysheets pictured them slipping under trucks, causing tall men to trip. For a while this publicity had all the advantages of the Ford joke, and orders ran three months ahead of production. But when pranksters took to driving them into ballrooms and down fire escapes, the U. S. public decided that "Baby Austins" were silly, would not be seen in them...
...twelve short stories in All The. Young Men deal with Indians, are cut precisely in the pattern of Author La Farge's novels (Sparks Fly Upward, Laughing Boy}. Tall Walker, handsome Apache hero of "Hard Winter," went about his prolonged singing and dancing during a fiesta with all the enjoyment and absorption of a business man playing golf. At Taos, a white woman, fascinated by literary legends of the noble redman, made him her lover. When winter came and his wife on the reservation had trouble with the sheep and a sick child, Tall Walker was glad...
...LINCOLN LEGEND?Roy P. Easier ?Houghton Mifflin ($3.50). An attempt to separate Lincoln the Man from Lincoln the Myth; interesting description of the growth and development of some of the tall tales of Lincoln's kindness...