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The code elevated Chandler's work and enlivens this collection of letters, meticulously compiled by his biographer. In some 330 communiques to friends, publishers and film executives, a life passes in review. There are references to young Raymond who wrote "clever and snotty" critiques for an English periodical. That...
Not surprisingly, admen tell their clients that spending is just as important today as in better times. For example, they warn against cost-cutting measures that result in cheaper-looking ads. Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn claims that years invested in building a product's "quality image" can be wiped...
Barrie was now half a father, and fate soon gave him full title. Arthur died of cancer in 1907 and Sylvia followed him three years later, leaving the play wright as her boys' principal guardian. His care and kindness could not be faulted, but no indulgence could save the...
Housed in a building that itself appears capable of flight, the National Air and Space Museum is unquestionably the biggest tourist attraction in Washington. C.D.B. Bryan's The National Air and Space Museum (Abrams; 504 pages; $50) should prove just as big an attraction on the coffee table. One...
Henry Fonda, as a relatively benign Southern aristocrat, breaks down and calls his son (Richard Thomas) a nigger when the boy marries a black (Fay Hauser). Paul Winfield, as a black college president, puts on a humiliating minstrel act to raise money from a socialite philanthropist (Dina Merrill). Ossie Davis...